Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

Greece is restoring the historic building in Athens' Plaka, famously known as the "Kokovikos House" from the classic Greek ...

Symmetrical arrangements of botanical motifs indicate a grasp of spatial division long before the advent of formal written numbers.

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

Archaeologists believe that the stylus was carved to resemble a herm, a type of sculpture in ancient Greece that was often ...

Many cultures, ancient and modern, have imagined magic as a supernatural art performed by specialists who undergo mysterious training. But for the ancient Greeks, magic consisted of a number of common ...

Roman necropolis uncovered in Egypt’s western Delta. Credit: Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists have uncovered ancient Roman workshops and part of a necropolis in Egypt’s ...

The scroll on the cup, which was found in Egypt, contains a phrase—“Muses who lead the chorus-leading hymn”—that cleverly slips in the name of the sixth-century B.C. poet Stesichorus. The text is ...

The most dramatic of the mosaic’s three panels, with a naked Achilles attacking Hector. Credit: University of Leichester In the summer of 2020, during Britain’s COVID lockdown, Jim Irvine noticed ...