The ancient Greeks measured time because human beings have felt the need to track the passage of their hours and days since ...

In Greek mythology, the giant Atlas was condemned to eternally hold up the sky as punishment for his defeat by Zeus in the Titan War. The ancient Greeks’ imagination of the Atlas Mountains in North ...

Walking through a supermarket today, you'll find the same vegetables everywhere. Carrots, potatoes, broccoli. Tomatoes lined ...

Historians have long debated the height of Ancient Greeks, imagining either towering heroes or smaller-than-modern people.

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

Travel timing can completely transform an experience. While most travelers flock to popular destinations during peak seasons, ...