According to Greek legend, a prince named Memnon led an army from ancient Iran to Troy and fought in the Trojan War.

In Thessaly, in the heart of mainland Greece, lies the Theopetra cave. It is home to a 23,000-year-old wall, considered to be ...

Experts believe the carvings date to the early 1800s and may have been made by Swedish fur traders in the area.

Archaeologists have been left reeling after uncovering a cave that pre-dates the Great Pyramid by 16,000 years ...

Alexander had a love-hate relationship with his father, King Philip II of Macedonia. While at times he appeared to be the ...

There is a 41-year-old woman, an administrative assistant from California known in the medical literature only as "AJ," who ...

For their study, researchers at the University of Thessaly ... history, human physiology, and numerical simulation. It was a true interdisciplinary effort that brought new life to ancient artifacts.

It was built in different phases across 2,000 years of history. From 770 B.C. to around 480 B.C., ancient China was divided into different states, whose rulers began building smaller walls to ...

Image credits: Untold Ancient History And then there’s Io, one of Jupiter’s moons and basically a cosmic volcano theme park. It’s the most volcanically active body in our solar system ...

But the pigment’s recipe was eventually lost to history A new study combines A.I., radiocarbon dating and handwriting analysis to estimate new dates for some of the ancient scrolls, thought to ...

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