The strange and powerful symbol at the heart of one of history’s greatest temples reveals the importance of the goddess ...

“Some of these texts could completely rewrite the history of key periods of the ancient world,” says Robert Fowler, a classicist and the chair of the Herculaneum Society, a charity that tries to raise ...

The most comprehensive geoarchaeological survey of Egypt’s Karnak Temple complex has been carried out by an international ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made a groundbreaking discovery, revealing traces of a ...

An ancient wooden falcon decorated with Egyptian blue alongside one of the newly developed pigments Matt Unger / Joshua Franzos / Carnegie Museum of Natural History Thousands of years ago, the ...

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A new 3-D model of a portable sundial found near Pompeii is helping researchers understand how to operate the "pork clock." ...

Counted among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia left an unforgettable impression on everyone who saw it. Completed in 466 B.C.E. after eight years of construction, ...

Water has memory they say and what would it reveal if someone followed its ways? Fortunately, the most remarkable heritage sites of antique societies are dotted along the coastlines and riverbanks of ...