When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

If you've ever wondered how farming spread far and wide, our research on past human societies offers one explanation: contact ...

Across the last 10,000 years, inequality has followed no single path. Instead of a straight rise tied to farming, population booms, or cities, the divide between rich and poor has ebbed and flowed ...

A regional airline based in Florida is on the edge of closing down for good. Silver Airways, a Florida-based regional airline once recognized for linking smaller cities across the U.S. and flying to ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

It was purportedly grown in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon where it was used for medicinal purposes in ancient Greece. It has been cultivated since at least the 16th century in England. Although it is ...

In ancient Greece, education wasn’t limited to the mind — it included the body as well. Physical fitness and scholarly pursuits went hand-in-hand, a principle reflected in the number of gymnasiums ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, carved into ...

Perched on a hillside on Lefkada, an island off the west coast of Greece, the structure has been ... began around the 4th century B.C.E., when ancient Lefkada was experiencing economic prosperity.

Over 1,700 years ago, the ancient Greek Stoic philosopher, Epictetus, proposed an entirely different theory. He argued that it’s not life events that upset us, but our thoughts about them.

A digital map of ancient Greece and the known ancient world as traveled by ancient geographers has been created by researchers at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The map lets users ...