Alexander the Great accomplished so much so soon so young that he rightly earned the honor of heroic greatness. He was definitely a hero and a genius. His mother Olympias tried to convince him he was ...

A tiny curse tablet excavated in the Dutch municipality of Heerlen allegedly invokes Egyptian deities and demons not in Latin ...

Greek soldiers recreated ancient life conditions in a study to determine if the Dendra panoply, armor used by the Mycenaeans some 3,500 years ago, could stand up to combat. Study authors found it did.

The "walking" philosophers, known as the Peripatetics, represent one of the most influential traditions in the history of ...

This isn’t the fabled realm of Atlantis—but it’s almost as magical.

The Antikythera mechanism, often heralded as “the first computer,” has continued to baffle scientists since its discovery in a Greek shipwreck in 1901. This intricate 2,000-year-old device was ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, the study adds to evidence that statues were more than slabs ...

A new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language to be a linguistic goldmine and a living bridge to ...