The long-running industry event continues to be a crucial launchpad for filmmakers from Southeastern Europe and the wider ...

From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey, is one of persistent turnover. But its ...

During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great powers of Classical Greece. When in 431 bc the Peloponnesian War broke out, ...

BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to Southeast Europe. The Achaemenid Empire controlled a vast area with ...

A skull which was discovered by anthropologists in the Paliokastro area of Thasos, Greece, shows signs of complicated surgery ...

A team of researchers has uncovered extensive remains of a semi-submerged ancient settlement along the northern coast of ...

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Birding is having something of a pop-culture moment. Uzo Aduba’s “world’s greatest detective,” from this summer’s Netflix hit The Residence, was a birder, as is Mark Ruffalo’s FBI agent character in ...

An explosive new documentary called ‘Bible Conspiracies’ makes the claim that the Greek religious preacher Apollonius of Tyana was actually the true 'son of God’ - not Jesus Christ as is commonly ...

Nobody knew how a nearly 2,000-year-old grave marker landed in a backyard for decades — until this week. By Aimee Ortiz Daniella Santoro and her husband, Aaron Lorenz, were busy “de-junglefying” the ...

In January, Amazon announced that they were partnering up with Melania Trump for a behind-the-scenes documentary on her life as the First Lady of the United States. Now, the wait is almost over, and ...

In a study published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, Dr. Victoria Romano and her colleagues analyzed the bones of 189 hunter-gatherers who lived during the Late Holocene (~4000 to 250 ...