BC, dawned heavy with the anticipation of battle. On the plains of Mantinea, the fate of the Greek world hung in the balance.

The ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides is considered by many to be the father of pharmacology for authoring De ...

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

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 ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has announced a new graduate program that reshapes what it means to study the ...

College launches one-year, in-person graduate program exploring the foundational texts of Jewish and Islamic civilization In ...

From Mozart and Dostoyevsky to Jackson Pollock — two books reveal the fundamental and sometimes surprising intertwining of ...

Ctesibius was a pioneering inventor of ancient Greece whose work in pneumatics and hydraulics shaped technologies still in ...

Too many, and the body would suffer serious imbalances. In ancient Greek medicine, particularly after the writings of Hippocrates (c460–c370 BCE) and his followers, food was understood through the ...