Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these would barely qualify as towns in modern terms. Even Athens, by far the largest of all city-states, only contained ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

There is evidence of Greek-speaking peoples populating the islands and coasts of the Aegean Sea as far back as the second millennium BC. Those peoples who migrated eastward and either settled in ...

Roman road surfaces have been discovered around here before, notably at the Cantium Retail Park a little to the north-west. That discovery was slightly south of the course of the modern Old Kent Road, ...

(CNN) — When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, it wiped multiple Roman towns off the map — but it also froze them in time ... rewriting their misunderstood history. Ancient DNA sequenced from bone ...

Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the identities of some ... But Mount Vesuvius’ eruption wiped it and other nearby ...

Each map from World at War to Black Ops 6 has its own unique crew ... As part of the Ex-Requiem task force, Grigori Weaver is ...

Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their ...

UNESCO told Newsweek it "is gravely concerned about the threats posed by the conflict to the region's rich cultural heritage." ...

The DNA from archaeological cat remains is being tested in an effort to solve the mystery of cat domestication. Scientists have known for a while that feline domestication has come about in a way that ...

It’s aimed at helping people take a deep breath — literally — and apply ancient techniques of prayer and meditation that enable people to respond to conflict more deliberately. Quick to anger?

An international study has found assumptions on the sex and relationships of individuals found in the ruins of the ancient ...