The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

The world’s oldest erotic graffiti was discovered in 2014 in Astypalaia, a remote island in Dodecanese, Greece.

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Credit: Edgar Serrano, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY SA 2.0 Ancient Greek is the language that was ... of the Eastern parts of the Roman Empire. Koine Greek was used to write the Septuagint as well as the ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

Ancient manuscripts detailing the events during the Roman Empire are believed to contain 'first hand' evidence about the life and death of Jesus Christ. The Annals, written by the Roman historian ...

Archaeologists found the ruins of an Iron Age settlement with a “rare” ancient Roman brooch buried underneath, possibly as an offering. Photo from GUARD Archaeology Sifting through the dark ...

In academic research, identifying authorship is a unique challenge for Chinese researchers when their names are presented solely in pinyin and might be shared by other researchers whose names are ...

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome ... According to Livy, a Roman historian writing around the time of Jesus ...