A digital map of ancient Greece and the known ancient world as traveled by ancient geographers has been created by researchers at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The map lets users ...

Ephialtes of Trachis, whose name later came to mean "nightmare" in Greek, is regarded as one of the most notorious traitors in the history of Greece. Ephialtes played a significant role in the Battle ...

Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid ...

A Long Island, New York school district is facing a lawsuit from a father and local civil rights leader who claims the school district's new mascot is a symbol of White supremacy. William King ...

Found at a beach in northern Poland, the nearly ten-inch-long artifact could be up to 2,500 years old. It had been lodged inside a lump of clay New Research Researchers previously assumed that ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

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Chaos looms over the $1 billion Sydney Fish Market as frustrated fishmongers threaten to walk away from the delayed project, plagued by rising costs, design flaws, and unsigned leases, with trader ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A powerful storm lashed the Greek island of Paros Monday, triggering widespread flooding and prompting ...

The 75.47-carat Hooker Emerald was worn by Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Photo by Chip Clark, courtesy Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural ...