Heraclitus was the ancient Greek philosopher who challenged the world through his beliefs in constant change, unity of ...

Fragments of two lost ancient Greek plays by playwright Euripides found in Egypt were remade into a play combining theater / ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

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

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the ...

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 ...

Rhodes, the largest island of the Dodecanese archipelago in Greece, possesses a history spanning millennia. While currently a ...

The ancient Greek name for the watermelon was the pepon. Physicians, including Hippocrates and Dioscorides, praised its many healing properties.

The slower growth of gravitational wells and the accelerating expansion might share the same underlying cause.” In so many ...

May 29, 2025 — The fossils of ancient salamander-like creatures in Scotland are among the most well-preserved examples of early stem tetrapods -- some of the first animals to make the transition ...