This medicinal plant was so coveted, it was worth its weight in gold. But this ultimately brought its downfall.

In 1962, archaeologists uncovered an extraordinary artifact in a tomb near Thessaloniki, Greece—the Derveni Papyrus.

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval ...

A galaxy in the distance, was tightly encircled by a halo of light—also known as an Einstein Ring, a result of gravitational ...

The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, in operation for a few months now, uncovered light coming from a ...

Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...

Contrary to the thought that public schools were devised to ensure the stability of a republican form of government as ...

Professor Hall’s love for classics is rooted in her childhood when she even named her pet cat Ailoura, which was derived from ‘ailouros’ the Ancient Greek for ‘cat’. After a PhD focusing on ancient ...

While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece, it's this one in central Athens that garners the most attention. In fact, it's routinely referred to simply as "The ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...

SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio — A teacher from the South Euclid-Lyndhurst School District was arrested on Tuesday and charged with a sex crime involving a minor, according to the Geauga County Sheriff's ...

even reflecting historical events such as the conquest of Greece by the Romans. The Aegean region gave rise to some of the earliest cultures of ancient Europe. The research team investigated when ...