A 2,000-year-old marble throne dedicated to Potamon, a revered rhetorician of Mytilene, has been highlighted by a 1908 ...

A young Basil I at the court of Omurtag of Bulgaria. Credit: John Skylitzes, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. The Byzantine Empire is known worldwide for many things. However, few people know about ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The painting and artistry is not what sticks out to archeologists at a newly discovered ancient altar in Guatemala. The likely ...

However, I still am unconvinced by the authors' claims to have demonstrated an unusually high rate of large-scale genome rearrangements across chitons. Their best argument seems to be comparisons ...

Over 1,700 years ago, the ancient Greek Stoic philosopher, Epictetus, proposed an entirely different theory. He argued that it’s not life events that upset us, but our thoughts about them.

It's known as an incredibly holy place, where ancient Byzantine monasteries were built atop the gigantic rock peaks. Six monasteries are still active with a small number of monks and nuns who ...

CAIRO — Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic ...

Mining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the team of astronomers studied the relics that one star left behind after it exploded. This "supernova archaeology" uncovered important clues ...

"A person came to the back of the cave and went through their hunting gear piece by piece: 'This is good. This is not good. I need to remake this leather pouch a little bit.' And then went on ...

Now, a farmer is reviving this ancient "superfood". It's a hot and muggy summer day in Sicily's Madonie mountains, a rugged range of ridges about 65km east of Palermo. In a field of ash trees ...

Science news this week includes "cosmic tornadoes" and surprises from ancient Egypt. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI/Tombos Archaeological Project) Jump to: ...

Field work takes place near the site where the tomb chamber, dating to about 3,600 years ago, of an unknown ancient Egyptian king was discovered during excavations by Penn Museum and Egyptian ...