Magic in modern fantasy often follows familiar rules. Special people are born with extraordinary powers, magical schools train future wizards, and supernatural energy can be measured, controlled, and ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to make a major leap in the hunt for worlds outside our solar system, ...

The 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism found in an ancient Greek shipwreck has been dubbed the “first computer,” using a ...

Mary Beard opens this book with a recollection of her first meaningful encounter with the ancient world. It was ...

Despite their occupations of Britain, the Romans and Vikings didn't leave much of a genetic mark on Britons. The Anglo-Saxons ...

Probably London’s coolest spa: an underground bathhouse in a historic building near the River Thames.

Cheering crowds, fast horses, dramatic accidents, and even a little sorcery made up a typical day of chariot racing in Rome ...

Canadian author and podcaster draws on Homer, lost epics, Greek drama, Roman retellings, and modern scholarship to ...

Researchers from the Hebrew University, the Technion, Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute to each receive €2.5 million in funding from the European Research Council ...

Ukrainian boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk wore the ancient Christian Chi-Rho symbol during his fight, linking his faith to a powerful moment in Roman and Greek Christian history.

Pontus hazelnuts have been prized since ancient times. Today, the Black Sea region (historical Pontus) produces the majority of the world’s hazelnuts. For Pontian Greeks, they represent more than a ...

Bread has been intricately woven into human history for thousands of years, and ancient Greece was no exception.