Professional historians react to the first scenes of Jason and the Argonauts (1963), comparing the film's portrayal of ancient Greek customs, city-states, and royal power to real historical sources.

Ancient Greek astronomers also used eclipse events to calculate distances between celestial objects. Many ancient cultures have long tied eclipses to other civilizational cataclysms.

Archaeologists recently excavated an ancient workshop on Paros, Greece, revealing unfinished sculptures and intriguing artifacts from the Classical period.

Take Greek mythology, for example: those stories are timeless because we constantly refer to myths and stories of Ancient Greece to make sense of contemporary events.

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.

A new study published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization presents an alternative explanation for how city-states emerged in ancient Greece. Instead of being solely the result of war, ...

It was named 'Teleios' by a team of astronomers from Western Sydney University in Australia. They chose this name because in ancient Greek, it translates to 'perfection,' something that emanated ...

Astronomers say they have now discovered the ancient Milky Way core from when our galaxy was still new to the universe.

Two independent groups of scientists have detected oxygen in the farthest known galaxy just 300 million years after the Big Bang.

Imagine what the ancient Hawaiian astronomers might have seen that night. If they looked up at the sky, they would have witnessed the same stunning phenomenon as their Asian counterparts.

Scientists have finally demystified the incredible workings of a 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator built by ancient Greeks. A new analysis of the Antikythera Mechanism, a clock-like machine ...