Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Türkiye Today reports that Turkish archaeologists led by Gorkem Kokdemir of Ankara University at the site of Magnesia in western Turkey have uncovered an extensive 2,400-year-old area paved with ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...

An international research team has published a new study on one of the oldest known sites for the processing of animal meat by humans in the southern Balkans. At Marathousa 1, an archaeological site ...

but the oracle at Delphi was the most famous. It was referred to as the navel of the world. So, literally the centre of the ancient universe. People would travel from all over Greece to consult the ...

The Ancient Greeks may have had it better than we do in 2025. Imagine a world where leaders sought answers from a priestess instead of “experts.” From the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE, the ...

From Mozart and Dostoyevsky to Jackson Pollock — two books reveal the fundamental and sometimes surprising intertwining of ...

The mass poisoning of the city of Kirrha, south of Delphi, around 595 BC, stands out in ancient Greece for its chilling scale ...

The Odeon of Herod Atticus recently opened the 70th season of the annual Athens Epidaurus Festival, a cherished annual ...

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Most of my summers in Greece were spent in Thessaloniki, where both of my parents grew up. It's the second-biggest city in the country after Athens and dates back to 316 BC. Ancient ruins and ...