The Parthenon, a mid-5th-century temple atop the hill of the Acropolis, is dedicated to Athena, the Greek deity of wisdom and ...

The legend of the Cyclops — the towering, one-eyed giants of Greek mythology — has long captured the imagination of ...

In 1948, a young physicist made a groundbreaking discovery about the origins of the universe—only to have his moment eclipsed ...

From protein-filled meals to the benefits of lentils and intermittent fasting, the Classical world had strong opinions about ...

Mount Vesuvius' eruption preserved the Herculaneum scrolls beneath a blanket of ash. Two millennia later, X-ray scans show ...

Trauma Plot by Jamie Hood and Notes on Surviving the Fire by Christine Murphy explore how women process and forge new senses ...

A new study reveals how ancient Greek and Roman music sounded using exact tuning and intonation based on 61 preserved pieces.

Forgetting things can be frustrating, even frightening. The ancient Greeks certainly thought so. But Daoism offers a ...

Conceptual problems, ideology clashes and xenophobia prevented the concept of zero from catching on for a long time. Today ...

Instead, the study suggests, Deinosuchus belonged to an ancient lineage that split off before the last common ancestor of today’s alligators and crocodiles, carrying characteristics that are ...

Or what remedies filled the medicine cabinets of pyramid builders? Turns out, one of ancient Egypt’s most treasured healing plants still exists today — and modern science is finally catching ...

Members of New Mexico’s Picuris Pueblo Tribal Nation have long told stories about having descended from ancient North American ancestors. Genetic evidence now backs up what Picuris people ...