What did the melodies that accompanied rituals, theaters, or banquets in ancient Greece and Rome more than two thousand years ago actually sound like? A mathematical analysis of all the compositions ...

Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were found guilty by a Newcastle Crown Court jury of two counts each of criminal damage for felling the tree and toppling it onto the ancient Hadrian's Wall.

In the quiet hills of Epirus in northwestern Greece, where a primordial breeze still rustles through the oak trees, the ancient oracle of Dodona once stood as a place of profound human yearning. Long ...

the scroll contains part of a multi-volume work titled "On Vices" and was written by an ancient Greek philosopher, Philodemus. The charred scroll was recovered from a Roman villa, believed to have ...

A Sherlock Holmes-style investigation has revealed the ancient method for the stunning pigment known as Maya blue — and it's different from a previous method uncovered nearly 20 years ago by the ...

The scroll, PHerc. 172, contains the Greek word for “disgust” and is likely the first book of On Vices, which explores themes like arrogance and greed. Excavated in the 18th century from a villa ...

We didn’t even know if it had writing on,” said Dr Michael McOsker (UCL Greek & Latin) on burnt ancient Greek scrolls from Pompeii being read for the first time using x-rays.

The hypothesis connects two of ancient China’s most brilliant astronomers and settles any arguments about whether the Greeks or the Chinese first mapped the stars using coordinates.

Archaeologists have discovered a hilltop in western Hungary that contains a vast hoard of ancient treasure dating back more than 3,000 years. The volcanic butte and its buried riches aren't protected ...

For example, scientists reconstructed the former composition of fauna in Greece with the aid of descriptions from ancient epic poems. Though there can be challenges to this approach—and sometime ...

But the saying has held sway since the days of the ancient Greeks. A look back might be in order in an era when wine — future tariffs notwithstanding — is presently in good supply, but truth ...