These 15 Greek god animals served as sacred symbols and divine messengers in ancient mythology — and their meanings still ...

The pyramids do not merely rise from the desert; they occupy the collective psyche of the nation, standing as permanent ...

New research suggests the Phaistos Disc was not an ancient text but a board game, based on evidence from design, and ...

Tiresias, the blind Ancient Greek prophet, could foresee the future for Apollo, and was transformed by Hera and lived as a woman for seven years ...

Pope Leo XIV blesses two lambs in the Urban VIII Chapel at the Vatican Jan. 21, 2026, the feast of St. Agnes. The lambs are ...

Archaeologists have unearthed tombs and a shrine dedicated to Hercules from the time of the Roman Republic.

RALEIGH — During January, the North Carolina State Capitol will be offering a new Saturday tour. The “New Year, Ancient Ideas” tour explores how ancient Greek and Roman culture influenced modern North ...

Adding some sweetness to the usual general audience-focused Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV was presented with two lambs Jan. 21 as ...

American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

UNESCO's recognition of International Greek Language Day affirms Greek as a living, global vessel of culture, knowledge and ...

Still, the “board game” framing has a quiet strength: it’s testable. Scholars can compare wear patterns, spatial logic, and symbol clustering against known game-board behaviors, rather than betting ...

The dark bowels of a limestone cave on Muna Island, off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, just yielded an ancient secret.