Evidence show that confession might actually have an origin in the pre-Christian religious customs of ancient Greece.

Pente Grammai was a popular Ancient Greek game of strategy during which players relied on tactics and foresight to control ...

All the greats of European classical music get their pen portrait, as do the wilder experiments of modernist high priests.

STILLWATER, Okla. (KFOR) — The Big 12 Conference is investigating reports of ‘inappropriate chants’ during Oklahoma State’s men’s basketball team’s win on Wednesday night against No. 16 BYU. The OSU ...

Chants of “(expletive) the Mormons” were heard in Stillwater, Okla., on Wednesday, during a BYU basketball game and on live TV. The Big 12 conference has announced an investigation into what happened ...

The Big 12 is looking into reports of anti-Mormon chants that were heard from the Oklahoma State student section during the Cowboys’ 99–92 win over the BYU Cougars at Gallagher-Iba Arena on Wednesday.

A third-century B.C.E. plaque unearthed at Ai-Khanoum in Afghanistan depicts the mother goddess Cybele in a chariot driven by Nike, the Greek goddess of victory. Thierry Ollivier / Musée Guimet via ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — If the rules of ancient Greece were observed today, drone and missile fire over Ukraine would stop on Friday as guns fall silent in the Olympic tradition. The Milan Cortina ...

Before telescopes, ancient Greek astronomers relied on naked-eye observations of the night sky to understand the universe around them. The meticulous star catalog belonging to one of the best of these ...

The earliest known hand-held wooden tools, used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, have been uncovered by researchers at an archeological site in Greece. One is made from the trunk ...

A digging stick and a tiny tool of unknown purpose are among the oldest handheld wooden tools ever found. The objects, from 430,000 years ago, indicate early human ancestors were using wood for tools, ...

This article originally appeared in The Conversation. If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus ...