Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana ...

A new study uncovers how early humans in Greece used stone tools for butchery, offering rare insight into life 430,000 years ...

He may have died laughing, but Chrysippus gifted us the blueprint for modern psychology and the Stoic wisdom that can calm our modern world.

"The classic checkerboard pattern of white squares interspersed with black or gray squares is ancient and traverses multiple cultures," says architect and designer Nicholas Potts. "It shows up in ...

Applying Twigstats to over 1,500 ancient genomes has unveiled detailed insights into Europe’s genetic history.For instance, researchers revisited the migrations of Germanic-speaking groups ...

Ancient Egyptians Ancient Egyptians drew the Milky Way on coffins and tombs, linking them to sky goddess, study finds Archaeology Hidden colors and intricate patterns discovered on the 2,500-year ...

That same year, ancient bronze statues were found in a garbage dump in Tuscany, Italy. In 2013, a 1,800-year-old carved stone head possibly depicting a Roman god found in an ancient trash dump in ...

What did the melodies that accompanied rituals, theaters, or banquets in ancient Greece and Rome more than two thousand years ago actually sound like? A mathematical analysis of all the compositions ...

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A new analysis of ancient Greek and Roman medical texts suggests that dementia was extremely rare 2,000 to 2,500 years ago, in the time of Aristotle, Galen and Pliny the Elder.

Modern chimpanzees appear to use similar selection patterns to those of ancient hominins when choosing stone tools. Image credit: Ben Costamagna via iNaturalist . DOWNLOAD PDF VERSION.