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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. Cecilie ...

The Greeks pretty much invented the theatre. Thousands of people packed the hillside arena of ancient Athens to watch plays by famous writers like Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. The Greeks ...

Two lost books by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as "The Great Geometer," have survived in an Arabic manuscript preserved at the Libraries of Leiden University in the Netherlands.

The sweet treats in ancient Rome were made by filling dates with nuts (such as almonds or walnuts) and then sometimes rolling ...

In a sixth-century Egyptian monastery’s library, high-tech imaging of parchments reveals thousands of pages of hidden text. This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic ...

From Rome’s holiest texts to a Chinese manuscript that wouldn’t have fit inside a shipping container, here’s our top ten list of the most important ancient documents that no longer exist ...

Apollonius, the Greek mathematician, was known to the ancient world as "The Great Geometer," who devised the concepts of hyperbolas, ellipses, and parabolas. His book “The Conics of Apollonius ...