Apollonius is far from the only ancient scholar whose work was saved by the medieval Islamic tradition: “we generally ...

Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...

A helmet up for auction in London is a well-preserved example of the "Corinthian" helmets used by many hoplite warriors.

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

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 scroll has become carbonated so can't be physically opened, but digital scanners are revealing the invisible words it contains.

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

Xenophon's Anabasis follows the journey of ten thousand Greek mercenaries and their families trapped deep behind enemy lines. Their gripping escape became the stuff of legend. Interwoven within the ...

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

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

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