Each Valentine’s Day, when I see images of the chubby winged god Cupid taking aim with his bow and arrow at his unsuspecting ...

Peritas the legendary dog followed Alexander the Great on the path to glory, fighting alongside his master and saving his ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...

Scientists hope that a combination of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help them decipher ancient scrolls ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing an ancient Greek Epicurean ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

An overview of Ancient Greek art, including painting, sculpture and architecture, and a look at how it changed over the years ...

Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with lead early on in antiquity. Geoscientists conducted ...

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.