Necromancy in ancient Greece referred to calling up the souls of the dead to consult with them for oracular purposes.

With their eyes fixed on the sky, the ancient Greeks formed constellations through noticing shapes in the stars.

The First Five Hundred Years,” Paula Fredriksen explores how a localized sect became a universal Roman church.

has been a year of extraordinary archaeological discoveries that have challenged long-held beliefs about human history.

Several ancient cults are better understood today, but there are many others that remain mysterious, even today ...

It's an archaeologist’s job to unearth relics once thought lost to history, but 2024 was marked with discoveries both strange ...

Traces of psychotropic plant matter, human bodily fluids, honey, wheat, yeast, and licorice were detected in a vessel ...

Digging for the past is not necessarily the exclusive domain of archaeologists as workers recently discovered whilst digging ...

Some of the mummies discovered recently in the Ptolemaic-era tombs were found with pieces of gold shaped into the form of a human tongue. Such golden tongues have previously been found at Oxyrhynchus ...

A few years ago, late in the fall of 2021, locals fishing Georgia's Bashplemi Lake in the municipality of Dmanisi came across ...

The inscription on the silver amulet provides some of the oldest-known evidence of Christian communities living north of the ...

Among the gold artifacts is an earring in the form of a naked, winged Eros figure holding a scepter and wreath.