Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Greek sanctuary in Ponte during the construction of a high-speed railway in Italy.

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

The religions of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans, often simply called “classical religion,” are often viewed as ...

An overview of Ancient Greek art, including painting, sculpture and architecture, and a look at how it changed over the years.

Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...

This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

The ancient scroll, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. It's ...

Ancient Greek thinkers knew how central labor is to being human. “Without labor, nothing prospers,” the playwright Sophocles ...

The scroll has become carbonated so can't be physically opened, but digital scanners are revealing the invisible words it contains.

An "historic breakthrough" has been made as researchers have provided the first look inside an ancient Roman scroll in 2,000 years.

In our modern world, moving at such an ultra-fast pace, it can feel like our cities are getting stripped of their history and ...