Two lost books by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as "The Great Geometer," have survived in an Arabic ...

What did the ancient Greeks and Egyptians call the pyramids, and what did these ancient words originally mean?

An ancient inscription indicates that in 262 AD there was another battle at Thermopylae between the Greeks and the Goths.

The fragment was written in Greek, he said. "This was real authentic manuscript, there were no word spaces, just run-on letters," he said, describing the old practice of writing in continuous script.

Researchers have managed to decipher the manuscript of an ancient Egyptian mathematician ... to have been written by the Egyptian scholar of Greek descent Claudius Ptolemy during the first century ...

The project was based on an ancient bamboo text called the "Shi Fang" manuscript. The text offers a wealth of information on ancient Chinese cooking practices, offering recipes from steamed fish ...

Ancient Chinese astronomer Shi Shen’s star catalog, known as The Star Manual of Master Shi, is now considered the oldest star ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York ...