The kylix was an ancient Greek shallow ceramic drinking cup with two handles, made to drink wine from, and an essential item in every symposium. The word symposium (symposia or symposiums in plural ...

Archaeologists found well-preserved images of messengers distributing papers and scrolls Credit: Matthias Kabel/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY 2.5 Messengers played a vital role in the communication and ...

The ancient Greeks often decorated their bronze cauldrons, used to honor the gods, with the head of a griffin, whose visage is that of an eagle but whose body is that of a lion. On its website ...

Professor Alice Roberts takes to the railways of Greece and Turkey as she learns about ancient Greek civilisation, which has had a powerful effect on modern life. In the northern Greek city of ...

Noting Ioannis’ studies at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Boston, he praised the late Archbishop Anastasios for reviving the Greek Orthodox community into a beacon of faith. Elpidophoros offered ...

This ancient invention was discovered on the small, geographically unique Greek island called Antikythera, located between the more popularly known islands of Kythera and Crete. The device was ...

Frieze depicts followers of ancient Greek god Dionysus Fresco dates to 40–30 BC Latest dig began in early 2023 ROME, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare, nearly life ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

A new study of ancient DNA from fifth- to sixth-century Hun skeletons suggests they were a motley crew of mixed origin with a few connections to the Xiongnu Empire in Mongolia.

From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

Experts from Greece’s Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, the Swedish Institute at Athens, Stockholm University, the University of Gothenburg, and the Nordic Maritime Group used advanced photography ...

But those experts may have a surprising new answer thanks to new research that shows the ancient people of the Philippines and ISEA may have mastered seafaring well before anyone else. Proving ...