Ancient Greek philosopher Chrysippus (279–206 BC) is believed to have died of laughter in a bizarre incident recorded by his ...

An ancient Greek artifact (lekythos or oil flask) is being repatriated to Greece from the museum where it was displayed in ...

The head of a griffin from 7th century B.C. is believed to have been taken from a museum in Olympia in the 1930s and later ...

The few that could be opened were philosophical texts written in ancient Greek. But most of the scrolls were so badly damaged, they were considered illegible. More recently, researchers managed to ...

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

Rivers may have operated on a global scale around 3.5 billion years ago. The new find comes courtesy of ancient rocks in China and South Africa. A change in rock chemistry around that time ...

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When it comes to specs, iPhones never really stand out among their Android brethren. They typically sport much less RAM and battery capacity, which usually prompts a lukewarm response from spec ...

Ancient DNA analyses bring to life the 11,000-year intertwined genomic history of sheep and humans by Trinity College Dublin Vessel supported by two rams, 2600 to 2500 BCE, object number 1989.281.3.

For more than a century, the ancient Indus script has mystified researchers. Left behind by the Indus Valley civilization, which emerged more than five millennia ago in present-day India and ...

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