The "romance" of Alexander the Great is a unique illuminated codex on his life and was the most widely-read romance in the ...

Archaeologists in Agrigento, Sicily just unearthed an ancient classroom where students listened to lectures more than 2,000 ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 2,000-year-old Greek lecture hall in Agrigento, Sicily, a major ancient Greek colony founded in ...

A theater that once overlooked ancient Lefkada in Greece is seeing the light of day more than a century after its initial ...

The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

Experts told Live Science it was probably the proto-Sinaitic script, which was invented about 4,000 years ago by Canaanite ...

Bactria, a huge area in todays' Afghanistan, was the eastern edge of the ancient Greek empire, established by Alexander the ...

The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

at the ancient Egyptian town of Oxyrhynchus in southern Egypt, dating to the early centuries A.D. Coptic, an Egyptian ...

The celebration of the Passover includes a script, called the Passover Haggadah. The Haggadah contains ancient rituals ... The term Afikomen is itself a Greek word, referring possibly to after-dinner ...

Paul Morrow Winnipegger Paul Morrow has done extensive research on the ancient script and created his own Baybayin fonts. "Now, because of the internet … the newer generations are just more ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.