The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

For the Greeks, the idea was a fluid one—a literal place and a civic ideal that allowed for democracy to flourish.

The Diolkos stone road is a marvel of engineering from Ancient Greece, allowing ships to travel from the Ionian Sea to the Aegean Sea.

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But what exactly is the Conclave, and how long is it set to last? Here's everything you need to know about this ancient process of choosing the leader of the Vatican. Conclave is an extremely ...

Olympia Steel Buildings specializes in steel building projects for a variety of industries and uses. All Olympia buildings are made in the U.S. with 100% American-made steel and are customizable ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, proving that the archaic humans were distributed widely over Asia.

There will be plenty of backslapping among the highly paid executives of Drax, Britain’s biggest power station, at today’s AGM held in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral. Some of the biggest ...

Members of New Mexico’s Picuris Pueblo Tribal Nation have long told stories about having descended from ancient North American ancestors. Genetic evidence now backs up what Picuris people ...

Members of Picuris Pueblo, an Indigenous American tribe based near Taos, New Mexico, knew they were connected to ancient settlements at Chaco Canyon, 275 kilometres to the west. Picuris oral ...

In a rare collaboration with geneticists and archaeologists, a federally recognized tribe in the United States has utilized ancient DNA to establish a genetic link to an important ancestral heritage ...