The Greek seaside town of Galaxidi has exploded into a messy “flour war” as many of its 1,700 residents and many visitors ...

A team of researchers in the Netherlands set out to decipher the rules of an ancient Roman board game, with an assist from artificial intelligence.

Monday 9 February marks the inaugural celebration of World Greek Language Day and tributes have been paid from across Europe in recognition of Greece's historical impact on life, literature and ...

NEW YORK — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. The tan-colored prints analyzed by ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four treponemal diseases, including syphilis—from 5,500-year-old human remains in ...

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 ...

Greece is easily one of my favorite countries! Enjoy this travel guide across Greece's most beautiful places. From the island of Zakynthos to Mount Olympus, Greece has so much to explore. 'Breaks my ...

The timeline of ancient history is built from archaeology, texts, and scientific dating methods. Yet some researchers argue that parts of this timeline may be compressed, misaligned, or based on ...

Scientists recently discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans — and it's far older than scholars previously believed. The study, which was published in the ...

A groundbreaking study has overturned long-held beliefs about the domestication of cats. New DNA evidence shows that domestic cats did not arrive in Europe until about 2,000 years ago, much later than ...

Excavation area at the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex in Peru. Credit: Ministry of Culture of Peru Researchers at the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex in Peru have identified a structure ...

If you’ve ever lived with a cat, you know they’re often an enigma. That said, scientists may have solved an enduring mystery about these lovable felines—with answers that could narrow down when cats ...