Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

Archaeologists in southern Sicily have uncovered an ancient bone tool depicting the god Dionysus and his erect phallus. The ...

Could an ancient Athenian understand a Byzantine Greek speaker and realize they spoke different versions of the same language ...

The prominent religious studies professor retired from UNC after more than 35 years of teaching, writing and inspiring debate ...

After reading about the 1,900-year-old Hermes head that was found in the ancient city of Laodicea in Turkey, discover the ...

In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

New insights from archaeology, genetics and early inscriptions are helping to uncover the story of Celtic languages in ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, explored ancient myths and folklore about creating automation, artificial ...

Indus, Rongorongo, Linear A: Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past? Do you enjoy solving puzzles? What would you do if given a ...

(RNS) — More than a century ago, in 1896, Rabbi Solomon Schechter, the great Jewish educator and founder of Conservative Judaism, traveled to Egypt to begin documenting a trove of Jewish manuscripts ...

Archaeologists uncovered a basalt tablet in the Bashplemi Lake region of Georgia with an unknown language carved into its face. The tablet featured 60 characters across seven rows. Experts said that ...