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

Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no ...

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

Yet despite a wealth of data and new techniques including ancient DNA analysis ... the emblems of the Roman Tenth Legion (abbreviated “LEGX F”). First-century a.d. Roman writers including ...

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 ...

It begins with prehistoric picture writing, progresses through Egyptian hieroglyphics, and examines the development of the Phoenician, Greek, and Roman alphabets. The film highlights the alphabet ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

Croatia In 301 A.D., the Emperor Diocletian made a bold but ultimately unsuccessful bid to address the inflation that was rampaging across the eastern half of the divided Roman Empire. Prices of ...

While global attention is focused on US President Donald Trump’s policies toward Europe, China, and Russia, his impact on Africa and Latin America could be just as profound. In the near term ...

Jones taught himself Sanskrit to interpret local laws and suggested that the ancient Indian language had a common ancestor with Latin, Greek and Old Iranian. DNA evidence shows that the proto ...