The elite women of ancient Greece and Rome regularly used cosmetics, a custom that was adopted from the ancient Egyptians.

The earliest known Jesus mosaic inscription declaring Jesus as God, the Megiddo mosaic, was found under a prison in Israel.

The lecture hall was discovered during excavations at Agrigento, the site of the largest ancient Greek settlement in Sicily. Photo by Thomas Lappi and Monika Trümper, FU Berlin, Institute of ...

In ancient Greece, education wasn’t limited to the mind — it included the body as well. Physical fitness and scholarly pursuits went hand-in-hand, a principle reflected in the number of gymnasiums ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, carved into ...

Back in ancient Greece, women were expected to be “all-natural,” therefore not wearing any kind of makeup. However, it didn’t always work out that way. This was the case when it came to women’s ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried ... In my new book, "Mythica," which looks at the women not of Rome but of Bronze age Greece, I've found that new discoveries ...

Over 1,700 years ago, the ancient Greek Stoic philosopher, Epictetus, proposed an entirely different theory. He argued that it’s not life events that upset us, but our thoughts about them.

He was a Greek mathematician and the head librarian at the Library ... a feat that stands as a testament to the ingenuity of ancient science. Using the differences in the angle of the sun’s rays at ...

It was a better night for the Republic of Ireland, who beat Greece 4-0 in Crete ... to earn a crucial 4-0 win over Greece in the Uefa Women's Nations League in Heraklion. Ireland manager Carla ...

Once yelled at women seen to be pestering or annoying ... is derived from a group of monstrous female figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. In Greek and Roman myth, the harpies ...