A Professor of Classics at the University of Ibadan, Prof. Olakunbi Olasope, has urged the introduction of a compulsory course in Greek and Latin roots of medical terminologies for medical students, ...

This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know ...

Formed by cascading hot springs and framed by ancient ruins, these white terraces in western Turkey create a surreal landscape unlike anywhere else.

The awe-inspiring Greek Gods, deeply intertwined with the natural world, were represented through animals which were symbolic ...

One class of ancient Roman gladiator called the hoplomachus was inspired by the equipment and fighting style of the Greek hoplite.

Legend has it that when the Statue of Zeus was completed, the king of the gods announced his approval via a lightning bolt.

Nearly 60 works from the legendary Torlonia Collection, hidden for decades, showcase the splendor of ancient Rome at the ...

When New York-based jeweller Sarah Ysabel Narici was designing her take on a hoop earring for her brand Dyne, she looked to ancient Rome and Greece. “Myths about power, transformation, human desires, ...

Egyptian archaeologists recently uncovered a hidden harbor at an ancient temple connected to Cleopatra VII – an unexpected find for historians.

In modern Iraq, the ruins of ancient Babylon have witnessed epochs of historic turmoil. They now face an uncertain future, but still have the power to amaze.

Myth and Marble,” an exhibition of the Torlonia Collection at the Kimbell Art Museum, has been thousands of years in the ...

Thousands of years before Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert got under President Trump's skin, ancient Greek and Roman poets ...