A laboratory study of a Roman Republican shipwreck off the Croatian island of Ilovik has turned a routine conservation ...

An Aramaic inscription found at Zerzevan Castle documents the closure of a Mithras temple. This ancient text provides rare ...

Did the ancient Greeks and Romans experience Alzheimer's? Medical texts from 2,500 years ago rarely mention severe memory loss, suggesting today's widespread dementia stems from modern environments ...

In Acient Greece, thousands journeyed down the Sacred Way to reach Eleusis and undergo initiation into the Eleusinian ...

Greek soldiers recreated ancient life conditions in a study to determine if the Dendra panoply, armor used by the Mycenaeans some 3,500 years ago, could stand up to combat. Study authors found it did.

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More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...

Humans have known about, thought about and worried about climate change for millennia. Since at least the fourth century BC, the ancient Greeks and Romans recognized that the climate changes over time ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, the study adds to evidence that statues were more than slabs ...