A pair of physicists at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, in Argentina, have created a computer simulation of the famed ...

Researchers have created a computational model of the Antikythera mechanism to test how it worked. It was prone to jamming ...

Archaeologists have discovered the "oldest" auditorium from the ancient Greek world in Sicily. The international team, led by Professor Monika Trümper and Dr Thomas Lappi, discovered the ...

Archaeologists in Agrigento, Sicily just unearthed an ancient classroom where students listened to lectures more than 2,000 ...

The words to the US National Anthem were written by Francis Scott Key, as he watched the British Royal Navy bombarding Fort ...

The ancient Greek historian Herodotus tells the myth of Arion, a famous poet and lyre-player from the island of Lesvos. His talent had made him very rich and while sailing back home to his native ...

The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It was a long stretch of time that spanned from ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

Ancient city The ruins of Megiddo are now in a national park about 18 miles (30 kilometers) southeast of Haifa. Megiddo was a strategically important city at a crossroads on trade and military ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...

Hear the heavenly sounds of the ancient Greek lyre as Lutherios presents the 'Gift of the Gods' Tour which travels across Vancouver Island from March 22 though April 2, making a stop in Duncan on ...