Over the past two decades, more than 43,000 inscribed shards of pottery known as ostraca have been uncovered in Athribis, ...

A criminal trial has opened in Greece over a train collision that killed 57 people, many of them students, in a disaster that ...

Antigone” gave us the original “bad girl,” but its themes go beyond that. How do adaptations keep making Sophocles’ ideas ...

Between 1896 and 1907, Oxford University scholars Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt unearthed many papyrus fragments at the ...

A 2,100-year-old sling bullet with a sarcastic inscribed message “learn” attached was found in the holy land, on the eastern ...

Experts said the fragment, recovered by divers from the Greek culture ministry, matched the style and dimensions of the ...

The letter X can be a lot of things: rebellious, mysterious, religious. For this Word of the Week, we examine its origins and ...

The government wants to introduce “astrolinguistics” and “astroarchaeology” as university degrees, revealing how oligarch ...

Home to some of the last speakers of Aramaic, Maaloula was attacked in Syria’s civil war. Its residents are determined to ...

Polish archaeologists working in Libya have identified a stretch of seabed near ancient Ptolemais that points to multiple ...

The dust-covered relic emerges from the earth, promising to rewrite history books and challenge everything we thought we knew ...

The Indus script has been called, with irony, the most deciphered script in the world. The first claim to a decipherment, ...