Elephants have been a powerful symbol of wealth and power since ancient times. But how did the symbolic meanings of elephants ...

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

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human ...

Amazons fight Greeks on a terra-cotta lekythos (oil flask) from the fifth century B.C. Amazon battle scenes, known as Amazonomachy, were popular in ancient Greek art. Metropolitan Museum, New York ...

These solar-powered names are charming and unique. From names that mean "sun" to names that reference July's beautiful ...

When Alexander the Great’s empire reached India, it created a surprising cultural crossroads. Some Greeks living in the ...

Baby names inspired by Greek history and mythology are gaining popularity in the US. From Athena to Zeus, there is a name for ...

Hollywood actor Mel Gibson visited the Hilandar Monastery on Mount Athos, Greece, connecting with the historic Orthodox ...

Disney takes London audiences back to Ancient Greece with its new musical "Hercules", bringing alive its 1997 animation on the West End stage.

This Greek cup, dating from around 510 B.C., depicts an Amazon warrior on a horse. Scholars suggest wording on the vase names the woman Worthy of Armor in ancient Circassian.

Authorities in Greece have arrested an American man suspected of killing a woman and her baby, whose bodies were found days earlier in a park in Rome, Italy. A 46-year-old man going by the alias ...

An American man using a fake identity has been accused of murder after a woman and her baby were found dead in a park in Rome just days after the three were seen together.