Archaeologists uncovered the ancient Greek agora of Hyllarima in Turkey, revealing ancient Hellenistic shops and public ...

The ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides is considered by many to be the father of pharmacology for authoring De ...

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

Workers unpack a box containing the remnants of an ancient Chinese silk manuscript at Beijing Capital International Airport on Sunday before delivering them to the National Administration of Cultural ...

CHANGSHA -- A team of students in China recently gave suggestions as to what rice might have tasted like in the country two millennia ago, with these suggestions based on their study of an ancient ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the oldest Greek marble altar ever found in the western Mediterranean. The discovery was made during the latest excavation campaign at the ancient site of ...