When it comes to chronicling the past, it seems there are basically two ways discoveries are made: either they’re the result ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Nostalgia has become a defining trait for Millennials and Gen Z-ers. However, this concept has roots beyond the present to ancient Greece.

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.

Eleven works from the Vatican Apostolic Library are featured in the second Islamic Arts Biennale, held from January 25 to May ...

Anyone who reads this column regularly knows how much I enjoy seeing a conjunction of the moon and Venus in the western sky at dusk. I’m not sure why it’s ...

Accidental archaeological discoveries are relatively common in Greece, a country renowned for its ancient heritage, and often made during building construction or public works. In December ...

whose works on astronomy and astrology were the standard texts in Europe and the Islamic world until the 16th century. Ptolemy's treatises, which drew upon both Greek and Egyptian astrological ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

Amid the ashes of a funeral pyre, encased in burnt mud, was a papyrus scroll—the first to be found in mainland Greece. Dating of the document and the discovery its literary nature subsequently ...

Babies were weaned earlier in cities in the Roman Empire than in smaller and more rural communities, according to a study of ancient teeth ... from Thessaloniki, Greece, and Pompeii, Italy ...