For example, the sound ‘kw’ in some words evolved into ‘t.’ In other words, it evolved into ‘p.’ One prominent ancient Greek writer in the Archaic era was Homer. He lived in the seventh century BCE.

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

Scientists are leveraging a combination of artificial intelligence and X-rays to begin unraveling the mystery of the charred ...

For more than 250 years, scholars and scientists have worked on many ways to decipher the scrolls, the majority of which are ...

After two students correctly identified the ancient Greek word for "purple" in a papyrus scroll charred by the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, they teamed up with a third student to identify about 5% ...

Scientists use artificial intelligence and human expertise to decipher ancient scrolls charred by the volcanic eruption of ...

For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...

The tale of the ancient Greeks in Libya begins in 630 BC with a group of islanders from Thera, Santorini, establishing Cyrene.

The lentil-shaped objects were unearthed in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman ...

A ‘unique’ collection of ‘pearl caves’ containing archaeological artefacts has been found in an ancient tunnel. The pearls are a type of ‘speleothem’ – mineral deposits that are ...