Firefighter uses a hose as the try to extinguish the blaze near the town of Ierapetra on the south coast of Crete island, ...

What if the history we’ve been taught isn’t the whole story? This video explores an alternative timeline theory that ...

The move for American Independence was greatly influenced by ancient Greece, particularly philosophy from the time.

Since the time of ancient Rome and Greece, people have dealt with love, this difficult emotion, in all its glory and calamity ...

While Confucius traveled with his disciples to various feudal states, Greek historian Herodotus traversed mountains and seas ...

Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

From the pyramids of Egypt to the jungle-choked ruins of Angkor Wat, from the magical desert capital of the Nabateans in ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

Amazons fight Greeks on a terra-cotta lekythos (oil flask) from the fifth century B.C. Amazon battle scenes, known as Amazonomachy, were popular in ancient Greek art. Metropolitan Museum, New York ...

The classic story follows the king of Ithaca as he undertakes a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War. The ...

Separating Kamari from Perissa on top of Mesa Vouna is Ancient Thera. This archaeological site, which was first claimed by the Dorians (ancient Greeks) in the 9th century B.C., is home to ruins ...