The first kind of love the Greeks defined was eros, named after the Greek god of carnal love and fertility. It represents ...

The English word "tantalize" comes from the iconic Greek myth of Tantalus, an ancient Greek king who faced a brutal ...

Armed with new tools, scholars are finally able to read papyrus scrolls long deemed too fragile to open. The breakthrough could literally change history.

A 1,700-year-old school with walls covered in Greek text referring to a passage ... Imitate,” it says. The word “imitate” is ...

Greek Placenta cake, also known as "plakous" in Greek, has a history dating back to ancient Greece and Rome. It ...

There are a few versions of the Forbidden Experiment, but most involve raising a child while depriving them of key social ...

On a hilltop in Greece, archaeologists uncovered a huge set of ruins. The ancient complex — which turned mythology into history — is still revealing its secrets. A joint team of Greek and Austrian ...

Here's what the ancient Greeks and Romans can teach us about the environment and ourselves. From Roman soldiers in crowded ...

They designed checks and balances to guard against the accumulation of power they had found when studying ancient Greece and Rome ... In council, “all their words and actions shall be marked by calm ...

Homeopaths claim that substances that can cause symptoms when given to generally healthy people can be used in tiny doses to ...

By Alison Habens In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse. The blind bard Homer (a poet born around 850BC) invoked ...