Alexander had a love-hate relationship with his father, King Philip II of Macedonia. While at times he appeared to be the ...

There are at least fourteen major operas that are based on Greek mythology, showing how much it still speaks to us today over ...

The West once promised freedom, justice and reason. But after centuries of global dominance, war crimes and broken ideals, its future hangs in the balance. As nationalism rises and China stakes its ...

A painted Greek vase depicting marriage preparations ... For those interested in the less prominent –and mainly combative– events of the ancient Greek world, the ancient Athenian society offers a ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America about 6,000 years ago. Researchers are still charting how ...

Analyses showed that the bread was made with coarsely ground emmer flour, an ancient variety of wheat, and lentil seeds, with the leaf of an as yet undetermined plant used as yeast. Ancient emmer ...

The authors compared the amount of radiocarbon in each sample with the amount present in a standard reference that is used to represent modern atmospheric CO 2 — carbon derived from ancient ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology analyzed 279 trireme names recorded in 4th-century BCE inscriptions and concluded that the ancient Athenians carefully ... during the ...

Skeletons unearthed from the ruins of the ancient city of Copán in Honduras have yielded clues to the collapse of the Mayan civilisation. Copán, now a Unesco World Heritage site, thrived during ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and monuments that point to its significance as an important ceremonial site ...

The types of pollen and the quantities of pollen grains found at a site help researchers reconstruct ancient forests, track sea-level changes and identify the fingerprints of significant events ...