Heron of Alexandria was an important ancient Greek inventor of mechanical devices whose inventions included the first steam ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Often archaeologists dig beneath the earth to learn about the past; however, there is another place that holds objects that ...

The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, has long been lost to time, its remains ...

Freedom Bank Kazakhstan, a part of Freedom Holding Corp., a NASDAQ-listed finance and technology group, received the award in ...

When musician Tharun Sekar built his first yaazh, he wasn’t just recreating an ancient Tamil instrument; he was unknowingly ...

Ancient Greek winter solstice festivals such as Haloa and Poseidon’s month blended astronomy, fertility rites, and the divine ...

The fascination with Greek culture can be traced to the early modern period, from the Renaissance until the eighteenth century. During this era, European scholars – and later educated elites and a ...

Despite sitting on the seafloor two millennia off the coast of Alexandria, still visible on the boat’s timber was graffiti ...

The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the ...

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete.

And it is true that the Victorians had mummy unwrapping parties. So mummies would be, you know, shipped over from Egypt and ...