The "Dead Sea Scrolls" exhibit, announced at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, features ancient Jewish ...

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

In one of Tombstone's best scenes, Doc Holliday and Johnny Ringo engage in a Latin conversation, and it's more important than fans realize.

While teaching humans about their ancient civilizations may seem like an odd job for artificial intelligence, it has ...

Greek is ranked as the richest language in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. It is well-known that ...

Dolphins in ancient Greece were revered as messengers of the gods and held a divine dimension that has survived through the ...

The carob seed which became the modern carats shows how ancient Greeks devised ingenious ways to ensure fairness in trade.

We look at how the Greek language slowly replaced the Latin, Hellenization of the empire and the region, tensions between Christianity and Hellenisation, Romanness and Hellenic nature, and ...

A groundbreaking study using advanced radar technology has revealed a vast and intricate underground structure beneath the Pyramids of Giza. Scientists Corrado Malanga from the University of Pisa and ...

The word equinox comes from two Latin words meaning equal and night. That’s because on the equinox, day and night last almost the same amount of time — though one may get a few extra minutes ...

Unlike Neanderthal DNA, which makes up roughly 2% of the genome of non-African modern humans, this ancient mixing event contributed as much as 10 times that amount and is found in all modern humans.