The word sycophant has fascinating roots that stem from the ancient Greek fig market. Greek has influenced modern language in ...

The image many have in mind of Greek sculptures—noble looking with a bit of an emptiness about the eyes—might be slightly ...

Researchers also discovered several movable finds, including statues of Aphrodite and clay heads of female figures.

Ancient ideas about diet were grounded in archaic theories about how the body worked. Most Greek and Roman doctors believed that all bodies existed on a spectrum of hot, cold, wet, and dry.

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati, led by Florence Gaignerot-Driessen, are using modern tech to understand ancient ...

Since the late 1980s, archaeologists have been working at the site of the ancient city of Zeugma in eastern Turkey -- founded ...

The statues were rigid, and often standing up straight with neutral facial expressions—this is a far cry from the soft, airy Greek statues we most associate with the ancient culture. By 500 B.C ...

A trio of archaeologists from the University of Barcelona and the University of Castilla-La Mancha, both in Spain, and the ...

What did the melodies that accompanied rituals, theaters, or banquets in ancient Greece and Rome more than two thousand years ago actually sound like? A mathematical analysis of all the compositions ...

Greek mythology has persisted for thousands of years—long enough to be influenced by even older myths. The half-lion, half-woman Sphinx, for example, dates to ancient Egypt at least 2000 years ...

All are thought to date from various periods of ancient Greek history and will be assessed by a state archaeological service. Police also confiscated metal detectors and scanning equipment ...