The ancient Greeks associated the entrance to Hades with a real-life location in ancient Greece. Where was this place?

Then, at the fashionable Dogpound gym, clients aspire to embody the visceral strength and unstoppable tenacity of Greek figures like the Titans or Cerberus, the mythical guard dog. The entire hardcore ...

As my teaching and writing careers end in the next few weeks, I’m trying to suppress a feeling of quiet despair.

Ancient Greeks developed sophisticated units of measurement ranging from measuring length, distance, volume, and weight of ...

The lecture hall of an "impressive high school" from an ancient Greek settlement was recently uncovered in Italy – with the discovery highlighting the similarities between ancient and modern ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

One of the largest crocodilians that ever lived preyed on dinosaurs. New research has found the fearsome Deinosuchus had a ...

The prehistoric crocodile relative may have tolerated both freshwater and saltwater habitats, allowing it to conquer North ...