Set between sea and sky, Syracuse is a city of ancient grandeur and Mediterranean charm. Its exceptional heritage, a UNESCO ...

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

Archaeologists in Italy’s Valle dei Templi have uncovered ancient Greek baths, pottery kilns, and early Christian tombs in a ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Amazons fight Greeks on a terra-cotta lekythos (oil flask) from the fifth century B.C. Amazon battle scenes, known as Amazonomachy, were popular in ancient Greek art. Metropolitan Museum, New York ...

A remarkable archaeological discovery on the Croatian island of Korčula is reshaping our understanding of prehistoric life in ...

One of Jordan's best-known archaeological sites, only an hour's drive from Amman, the old Greco-Roman city is not to be ...