A claim that they received 4 to 5 liters of beer a day has appeared in social media posts, popular articles and books for ...

Authorities in Greece said Friday they have arrested a suspect accused of setting up online auctions to sell ancient Greek artifacts across multiple countries, including the United States, Britain, ...

The world of archaeology and art is often filled with thrilling discoveries, but few match the sheer surprise and sere ...

The purpose of these so-called 'sun stones', and the reasons for throwing them into ditches en masse, have been something of a mystery – but ancient ice excavated from Greenland may have the answer.

A period of severe cooling around 2900 BC is corroborated by sources including tree rings ... How the secrets of ancient cuneiform texts are being revealed by AI “It’s a good explanation ...

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 ...

They retrieved over 50 ancient genomes from a set of burial grounds ... knowledge of Iron Age Britain has come primarily from the Greek and Roman writers, but they are not always considered ...

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 ...

DNA analysis of dozens of ancient burials uncovered a community whose lineage could be traced back to one woman, and showed that men joined the group upon marriage. "This is the first time this ...

Ancient Greeks had a reciprocal relationship with ... within the context of natural order. Mammals were renewable resources, the animals most likely to engender empathy and provide services, or to ...