Ancient Greek dining was sacred with simple, high-quality ingredients like tuna and honey cakes connecting humans with the gods.

If you thought that crocodiles were menacing enough, be glad that you didn’t live in Arizona some 225–201 million years ...

Explore the unique social and sexual freedoms of Spartan women, their roles in society, marriage customs, and the practice of ...

This article includes links that may result in a small affiliate share for purchased products, which helps support independent LGBTQ+ media. In the early days of ancient Greece, queer love was ...

It was the summer of 2020, and researcher Walter Crist was wandering around the exhibits inside a Dutch museum dedicated to the presence of the ancient Roman empire in the Netherlands. As a scientist ...

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A third-century B.C.E. plaque unearthed at Ai-Khanoum in Afghanistan depicts the mother goddess Cybele in a chariot driven by Nike, the Greek goddess of victory. Thierry Ollivier / Musée Guimet via ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — If the rules of ancient Greece were observed today, drone and missile fire over Ukraine would stop on Friday as guns fall silent in the Olympic tradition. The Milan Cortina ...

Before telescopes, ancient Greek astronomers relied on naked-eye observations of the night sky to understand the universe around them. The meticulous star catalog belonging to one of the best of these ...

A digging stick and a tiny tool of unknown purpose are among the oldest handheld wooden tools ever found. The objects, from 430,000 years ago, indicate early human ancestors were using wood for tools, ...

The oldest known wooden tools have been found in an opencast mine in Greece. They are 430,000 years old and were made by an unidentified species of ancient human – perhaps the ancestors of ...

This article originally appeared in The Conversation. If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus ...