A newly identified papyrus reveals lost verses by ancient Greek philosopher Empedocles, shedding new light on his teachings.

Have you ever wondered who is behind geometry's most fundamental truths? You guessed it: it is Euclid of Greece.

There is something quietly humbling about standing before an ancient artifact and realizing, with all of our satellites, ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, the study adds to evidence that statues were more than slabs ...

A new study shows how Hunayn ibn Ishaq, an eye physician, translated ancient Greek medicine into Arabic, reshaping medical ...

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

Ancient Greeks often inscribed messages on the objects they shot at their adversaries—in this case, doing so with a warning.

For almost 70 years, archaeologists have been puzzled by a sticky substance found in a bronze jar from an ancient Greek shrine in Paestum, Italy. Discovered in 1954, the residue was initially thought ...

The Antikythera mechanism has been described as the world’s first analogue computer since it was found in a shipwreck off the ...