Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...

Cadmus is a key person in the world of Greek mythology and is best known as the famous founder and creator of the ancient city of Thebes.

Archaeologists Unearth 1100-Yr-Old Breast Plate With Cyrillic Text Meant to Protect the Wearer From Trouble and Evil ...

The next transformative step in language development was the invention of writing. Around 3100 BCE, humans began using ...

But Trump’s coin is nothing new. In a pre-social media world, coins were the ultimate propaganda tool. Rulers used them to advertise themselves and their achievements and any messaging they wanted to ...

Alexander the Great was the first person to put his own image on Greek coins, hitherto the preserve ... chalice with an inscription in paleo-Hebrew alphabet reading (from right to left): "Shekel ...

In the mid 1970s when Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis proposed changing the Greek alphabet to Latin and making the Greek language phonetic, the minister of culture and a Parliament member ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

Amid the ashes of a funeral pyre, encased in burnt mud, was a papyrus scroll—the first to be found in mainland Greece. Dating of the document and the discovery its literary nature subsequently ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome has long been referenced, from the temple-like façades ...