A fast-moving wildfire whipped by gale-force winds burned through the night and into Thursday on Greece’s southern island of ...

The Romaniote Jews of Ioannina are a Greek-speaking ethnic Jewish community native to Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean ...

The magnificent ancient Greek theaters at Messene and Sicyon in the Peloponnese were centers for drama and culture in ancient times.

The scroll’s title, “On Vices and Their Opposite Virtues and In Whom They Are and About What,” was also deciphered. This further indicates the philosopher’s main message on how best to ...

The scroll, found in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, contains part of a multi-volume work titled "On Vices" and was written by an ancient Greek philosopher, Philodemus.

Team scoops US$60,000 prize for identifying a Greek work on vices from scans of a 2,000-year-old papyrus charred by volcanic eruption. Team scoops US$60,000 prize for identifying a Greek work on ...

We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. AI has helped decode words from a scroll burned in Mount Vesuvius’ A.D. 79 eruption — without unrolling it.

A 2,000-year-old Roman scroll, scorched beyond repair, has miraculously been unfurled with the help of X-ray scanning and artificial intelligence. The scroll, named PHerc. 172, is one piece to a ...

One of the first words to be translated was the ancient Greek διατροπή, meaning “disgust,” which appears twice within a few columns of text, the Bodleian Libraries said. “It’s an ...