Experts said the fragment, recovered by divers from the Greek culture ministry, matched the style and dimensions of the ...

The transition from mythology to rational, scientific thought in Ancient Greece set the foundation for Western civilization.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with archaeologist Gary Feinman about new findings that show democracy existed throughout the ancient world and was not exclusive to Mediterranean Europe.

History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of ...

A new study on ancient societies from around the world is rewriting what we thought we knew about democracy. A team of researchers analyzed archaeological and historical evidence from 31 ancient ...

"St. Patrick warned civilization may pass 'in a moment like a cloud of smoke that is scattered by the wind.' And if it falls, author Thomas Cahill argues it will ...

Roughly 2,000 years ago, a traveler from southern India stood inside the sacred tombs of Egypt’s Valley of the Kings and decided to leave his mark. The man, named Cikai Korran, carved his name into ...

As such, the palimpsest hosts a number of 10th century treatises by the Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes of Syracuse (though the original texts would have been centuries older). Notably, ...

The daily life in Ancient Greece revolved around work, family, education, and religion, shaping a civilization that still influences world.

A prehistoric viper discovered in Greece may have outweighed today’s king cobra. Fossils suggest this ancient snake was ...

The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 10th-century Byzantine Greek manuscript that was overwritten in the 13th century with a Christian liturgical text. This practice of creating a palimpsest, or a reused ...

Scientists are reconstructing the oldest known map of the night sky - long thought lost to time - by using X-rays to reveal its secrets.