Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, and traveling.

The ancient Olympic games were crowded with male athletes, but were there opportunities for females to compete in sports?

In ancient Greece, music education was as important as philosophy in cultivating young people's souls, perceiving both ...

Discovered in a Mediterranean shipwreck in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism stunned historians with its intricate system of interlocking bronze gears dating back to around 100 BC. X-ray imaging later ...

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity explores the connections between Irish myths and modern stories and the classical ...

Ancient Greece wasn’t just philosophers and democracy, punishment could be brutal. From exile and execution to the terrifying ...

How did the ancient Greeks think about technology? Were they techno-optimists or pessimists? How do their myths – of Pandora, Odysseus, Talos, and Icarus – parallel to the technological possibilities ...

The Olympics have a rich history. Check out more information on their prolific past, promising present, future forecast, and more.

Archaeologists in Trabzon, Turkey, have made an extraordinary discovery, unearthing one of the world’s only three known ancient river ports. The structure, found buried nearly eight meters (26 feet) ...