Six individuals were arrested on Crete for allegedly running an antiquities smuggling ring. The group attempted to sell a ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

Kabbalah intertwines with Greek philosophy, from Neoplatonism to Pythagorean symbols, shaping Jewish mystical thought.

The Ship of Theseus thought experiment is a long-standing problem in philosophy that has been debated for centuries.

Archaeologists uncovered ancient kneeling skeletons and rare artifacts in northern Vietnam, revealing insights into Quỳnh Văn ...

Digging into the sandy soil of northern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a rusty metal object unlike anything they’d seen ...

A skeleton recovered from an intriguing Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators and animals, according to new research. The skeleton of a man, ...

What is a democracy anyway? In the current political climate, the media and politicians throw around many terms. Words like ...

For decades, a scattering of ruins in southeastern Europe was dismissed as little more than an unremarkable military outpost, ...

Scans of 18 ancient papyri that were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius look ‘very promising’, and there are plans to ...

The Victorian era is famously regarded as a period of restraint—restraint in clothing, social norms, emotional behavior, communication … the list could go on and on.

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...