Deipnosophistae is a work by Athenaeus, written around 200 CE, about well-read people philosophizing at the dinner table and enjoying good food and drink. The title is a combination of two words: ...

Ancient Greek measurement unit: Protocorinthian Cotyle, 650-625 BC. Ancient Agora Museum at Athens, Credit: Zde CC BY-SA 4.0 The ancient Greeks developed sophisticated units of measurement ranging ...

The lecture hall of an "impressive high school" from an ancient Greek settlement was recently uncovered in Italy – with the discovery highlighting the similarities between ancient and modern ...

Instead, their ancestry was predominantly linked to ancient Sicilian and Greek populations, with a growing North African component, highlighting a remarkable cultural continuity despite genetic ...

From Vikings to Beethoven: what your DNA says about your ancient relatives Phoenician city-states shared languages — recorded with an alphabet that was a precursor to Greek and Latin letters ...

GREECE, N.Y. – Greece Police are looking for a man who they say was caught on camera stealing a push mower from someone’s shed in Greece. Police said the suspect stole the victim’s mower at ...

Dating back more than 2,000 years, the mysterious ancient Greek device is generally considered the oldest computer in history. Some scientists describe it as the most complex piece of ...

A study suggests that the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to about 4,500 years ago, this would move up the introduction of ...

Is it the end of the world as we know it? The Prophecy of the Popes, a 900-year-old prescient manuscript, is believed by some to predict the next pontiff — and the end of the world. Pope Francis ...

MYTILENE, Greece – A 2,000-year-old marble throne dedicated to Potamon, a revered rhetorician of Mytilene, has been spotlighted through a recently uncovered 1908 photograph from the British School at ...

They lived off the sea, consuming oysters. Today, piles of ancient oyster shells are noticeable to people like Holland-Lulewicz, trained to see anomalies in soil layers. In some locations ...