In the 4th century BC, the Greek engineer Aeneas of Stymphalus devised a groundbreaking communication system known as the ...

Women of ancient Athens used clothing pins as weapons, prompting a shift in Ancient Greek fashion and societal control.

Bronze armor is somewhat rare, as organic materials degrade or corrode, and metals were often melted down for reuse by ancient people. Because of the lack of finds, each discovery of this type is ...

The ancient Greek society was a complex mix of ingenuity, brutality, eccentricities and practices that you may define as cultural rites that often fall outside of contemporary expectations. Of the ...

Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...

Quarantine is a word that has become all too familiar in recent years, but its origins are centuries old. Stemming from the ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the ...

The work in Laodicea had previously unearthed a statue of Aslepius, so discovering the head of Hygieia added to the existing ...

Halloween famously comes from the Celtic festival of Samhain, but does Samhain itself come from an Ancient Greek festival?

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Greece is often described as the cradle of Western civilization, has a legacy that no one can ignore. And much of it is visible in its ruins or the places that are so ancient that any traveller will ...

In a stunning find, hundreds of artifacts dating back to the golden age of China have been discovered in ancient Han period tombs located at the origin of the Silk Road. Xi ’an (Sian) city is the ...