Eunapius of Sardis, a Greek historian and rhetorician who lived between the 4th and 5th centuries AD, wrote a Life of the ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...

Gold was extracted from Egyptian mines through forced labor to finance the wars and expansion of the ancient kingdom.

In the ancient city of Alexandria, Egypt, a great library burned. It was said by some to have held upwards of half a million ...

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

Archaeologists have made an incredible discovery of what lies beneath a temple and is considered to be a "geometric miracle".

The largest temple of Ancient Greece was at the mercy of the masked men who caused riots after the peaceful gatherings for ...

Last year, a building collapsed in the Wardiyan neighborhood of Alexandria, killing four people. This incident is emblematic of a growing crisis facing Egypt's historic port city: the alarming ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

Hypatia of Alexandria is one of the most significant people of the late Roman Empire despite the fact she is often overlooked. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Sappho is one of the most ...

This photo provided by João Zilhão shows forearm bone fragments belonging to an ancient child that appeared to have features from both humans and Neanderthals. (João Zilhão via AP) Advertisement ...