With a score of 91.22 per cent, this Indian actress is regarded as the world's ninth most attractive woman. Any guesses who ...

A new study reveals that the Carthaginians, famed for their Mediterranean empire and wars with Rome, had little genetic ...

There are very few remains of ancient ships, except in one unusual place: the Black Sea has a unique environment that ...

In a landmark project, scientists use AI and X-rays to uncover texts of ancient Herculaneum scrolls buried by the eruption of ...

The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

N’arrow House is a wedge-shaped subterranean home that is being built into a hillside in Crete. The ambitious project is ...

Researchers have created a computational model of the Antikythera mechanism to test how it worked. It was prone to jamming ...

Ancient faces, letters and words appear on the rocks and the ... in which travellers sought prophetic predictions, and a ...

Phryne was a notable ancient Greek hetaira, or courtesan, of Athens, who is remembered throughout the millennia for her dramatic trial.

Tax day has changed history, with examples including the Rosetta Stone, Julius Caesar’s progressive policies, Caesar Augustus ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?