Bactria, a huge area in todays' Afghanistan, was the eastern edge of the ancient Greek empire, established by Alexander the ...

"These are ritual objects made specifically for burials and brought from Greece," explained a former archaeologist now serving in the Ukrainian military.

Nestled in the heart of modern-day Turkey lies Cappadocia, a fascinating region that is surprisingly rich in history and ...

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

The Rod of Asclepius is a striking emblem: a simple staff with a lone snake coiled around it, universally acknowledged as a symbol of medicine and healing.

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

In ancient Greece and Rome ... cultural significance of these sculptures,” writes Bill Giannopoulos for the Greek City Times. In some instances, the scents were also applied in ways that ...

Ancient city The ruins of Megiddo are now in a national park about 18 miles (30 kilometers) southeast of Haifa. Megiddo was a strategically important city at a crossroads on trade and military ...

Google owner Alphabet will buy cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion — in a deal set to boost the tech giant's in-house cloud computing amid burgeoning artificial intelligence growth.

The Greek municipality of Tenea boasts a rich ancient history—and the archaeological artifacts to prove it. Finds in the region have long hinted at a once-thriving settlement, with the latest ...

Jones taught himself Sanskrit to interpret local laws and suggested that the ancient Indian language had a common ancestor with Latin, Greek and Old Iranian. DNA evidence shows that the proto ...