Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...

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

Excavations revealed the manuscript within a sealed sarcophagus, and it featured early hieroglyphic writings that held the ...

Island are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to unsolved mysteries The world’s most mysterious secrets Ancient ...

Greek mythology sparked the Renaissance, transforming art from religious instruction to profound explorations of human ...

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.

A full and exact collation of about twenty Greek manuscripts of the holy ... by Frederick Henry A. Scrivener Topics caput, avrov, tov, codex, luke, rov, xsemel, kcu, google chapter, google digitized, ...

A team of researchers at the University of Manchester have secured a major €2.5 million (£2.1 million) grant from the European Research Council to uncover lost medical writings that could transform ...

The first is ΟΔΥCCEOC, the Greek genitive (i.e. possessive or attributive) case of Odysseus which suggests a writer referring to the location as the hero’s palace or temple.

Tracing the Evolution of an Ancient Script The Greek alphabet is one of the most enduring and influential writing systems in human history. From its origins in the 8th century BCE, it laid the ...

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Archaeologists recently excavated an ancient workshop on Paros, Greece, revealing unfinished sculptures and intriguing artifacts from the Classical period.