Since the first exchanges between India and Greece, the ancient Greeks were fascinated by the stories of India's mysterious gymnosophists.

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 ...

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

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

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there’s evidence of ...

Similar examples of ancient lion artifacts appear to have been used as door knockers. But the newly discovered discs may have ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

Made from natural materials such as clay, water jug filters have been used for hundreds of years in every continent by ...