Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West's first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on ...

Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed, ...

In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

In one of the most significant discoveries related to Ancient Greek literature over the past half century, archaeologists have uncovered around 100 lines from two otherwise lost plays by the ...

From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data than they’ve had in centuries. In October 2023, an e-mail pinged onto ...

The suggestion that ancient Greeks reached America before Columbus may seem far-fetched, but certain researchers think ...

C. Michael Sampson receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for 'the Books of Karanis,' a project that studies fragmentary Greek literature from the Egyptian ...

Over the next two and a half centuries, attempts were made to unfurl some of the hundreds of scrolls using everything from rose water and mercury to vegetable gas and papyrus juice, according to the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ancient languages to life, such as Ancient Greek and Old English, by demonstrating ...

London — The Herculaneum scrolls have remained one of the many tantalizing mysteries of the ancient world for almost 2,000 years. Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of ...