A new study on ancient societies from around the world is rewriting what we thought we knew about democracy. A team of researchers analyzed archaeological and historical evidence from 31 ancient ...

Three leaves had been missing for more than a century. Researchers found one of them when they decided on a whim to check the archives of a French museum ...

In Ancient Greece, riddles were crucial cultural elements, present in myth, religious practices, and philosophical thought.

Roughly 2,000 years ago, a traveler from southern India stood inside the sacred tombs of Egypt’s Valley of the Kings and decided to leave his mark. The man, named Cikai Korran, carved his name into ...

A 1,500-year-old mosaic in the ancient Greek city of Syedra, Turkey reveals an inscription similar to the phrase “let the jealous burst.” ...

Home to some of the last speakers of Aramaic, Maaloula was attacked in Syria’s civil war. Its residents are determined to rebuild–and preserve their mother tongue from extinction.

For hundreds of years, people have been passing down stories of Homer’s two great epics: “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey.” Naturally, this telling and retelling has led to many translations of the ...

Ancient Greek is vanishing from British education, warns The Spectator: only 206 A-level pupils in 2025, mostly private schools. Dumbing down, translations over originals threaten classics.

It all started off as a joke, a French researcher told AFP. But what the team found was a piece of history—a long-lost page from a legendary manuscript by ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes which ...

I’ve never quite understood why tourists can’t help but write things like, “Gayoung was here.” But archaeological records ...

The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West.

A study of the Mani Peninsula reveals that over half of local men share a paternal lineage reaching back to the early medieval era.