On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

This enchanting Greek cave is the stuff of myths and legends, complete with a storied past and a scintillating azure lake ...

The existence of ancient cave paintings in Brazil have been revealed for the first time - two years after they were discovered by a climber in Rio de Janeiro. The paintings, which could be up to ...

Thucydides fought in the Peloponnesian War on the Athenian side. His world was steeped in the sensibilities of Greek tragedy, and his historical narrative carries that imprint throughout.

South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, home to early human fossils, reopened after three years, offering tourists a chance to engage with live scientific research. Seated on sandbags in a knee-deep ...

M ore than 10,000 years ago, a group of Indigenous Americans with close genetic ties to the mysterious Clovis people buried a ...

Students may repeat a required course one time. Failure to achieve the "C" or better grade after one repeat attempt will have the student dismissed from the microcredential in Advanced Ancient Greek.

Called Taforalt cave, or Grotte des Pigeons, this site contains graves of over 30 ancient humans. During this time, mammoths were still grazing the northern steppes and sheep would not be ...

Ancient Homo sapiens about 40,000 years ago may have even benefited from some of the same technologies that we use to avoid sunburns today–mineral sunscreen, tailored clothes, and using caves ...

For the hermit monks of Karoulia, the most remote area of Mount Athos, climbing dangerous rocks and prayer are a part of ...

KRUGERSDORP, South Africa — Seated on sandbags in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, where one of our earliest ancestors was found, Itumeleng Molefe swept ancient soil into a blue dustpan, each ...