History doesn’t have to be a dusty museum or a long list of dates, it can be a thrilling adventure that families actually ...

Reincarnation and afterlife was a tradition among the ancient Greeks. Writers expressed the view that the souls of the dead ...

Alcidamas condemned slavery in Ancient Greek society, arguing it violates human nature and exposes the artificiality of ...

NEW YORK – The powerful gods of ancient Egypt are having a get-together on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. That would be at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s been more than a decade since the museum’s ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Staten Island Herb Society will delve into the dark side of botanical history when it presents Ancient Poisons at its Oct. 27 meeting at the Biddle House in Tottenville.

An excavation in Turkey has yielded not just artifacts — it's yielded millennia-old recipes that are bringing the flavors of Ancient Rome back to life. Archaeologists in Turkey recently completed digs ...

A team of archaeologists is excavating a huge cemetery of the common people in Attica, Greece. They’ve found some fascinating phenomena of the ancient world contained within—including “gifts from the ...

Beneath the surface of Alabama, time has been quietly working for hundreds of millions of years. What we found in those stones from ancient coral to quartz veins was nothing short of breathtaking.

We can learn a lot about a civilization from its dominant religion. Ancient Egypt is a good example. The religion of ancient Egypt had a far-reaching effect on every aspect of daily life. If you want ...

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Cairo — A rare 4,000-year-old limestone relief has vanished from a tomb in Egypt's famous Saqqara Necropolis, officials say, in the second major apparent theft of an antiquity in just weeks. The ...