There has been a long debate about wine-drinking in Troy, but new research shows how common the alcoholic drink was.

In a landmark project, scientists use AI and X-rays to uncover texts of ancient Herculaneum scrolls buried by the eruption of ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

British author J. R. R. Tolkien's tale of the fall of Númenor was inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Atlantis.