Greece's Chalalampos Pitsolis won the 41st Athens Marathon on Sunday as he clocked 2:18:56 in the classic course from ...

Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the identities of some people who perished in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii after a volcanic eruption, overturning misconceptions about their genetic ...

Addressing the opening of the inaugural World Conference of Classics in Beijing, Martin Kern, a sinologist and professor at ...

Greek legends are typically full of the incredible — winged white stallions, bull-headed minotaurs, Trojan horses ...

Ancient Greek society was not as rigidly stratified as some other ancient civilizations, but there were distinct social divisions that played a role in determining a person’s status and privileges.

New elaborate murals have been discovered in the ruins of Pompeii, an ancient Roman city that was destroyed by volcanic ...

(KTVZ) -- Central Oregon Community College is celebrating Native American Heritage Month with a lineup of free community events in November, including a presentation on how Native American ancient ...

The font was one of the typefaces preloaded onto Windows 95—where it stuck out like a sore thumb alongside more stately options like Arial and Times New Roman—and as its thick preschool curves ...

The discovery of a 2,000-year-old tomb revealed the skeletons of at least twelve people buried beneath the Treasury monument in the ancient city of Petra, Jordan. Credit: Greek Reporter The rare ...

A fresco featuring the bright blue paint of the newly opened room; a scanning electron image of an ancient Roman concrete sample with lime clast, highlighted in red; Dr. Masic inspecting the ...

Eventually, nine muses were identified, covering every branch of the arts, in the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s introduction to Theogony, his epic poem about mythical stories and characters (circa ...

It’s at the heart of the ancient tragedy of Oedipus, and it perplexes people still. It drives a new production of Sophocles’ 2,500-year-old play in London, directed by Robert Icke and starring ...