Scholars believe a language used 5,000 years ago on the Asian steppe was the source of many of the world’s modern tongues.

The title and author of a charred scroll recovered from Herculaneum have been identified by researchers. The ancient Roman town of Herculaneum was encased in volcanic ash following the 79 CE eruption ...

Some believe that when a person dies nothing remains that death is the end of personality Others believe in the continuity of life That the present incarnation is only a link in the chain of one s ent ...

To train their model, Roth and Nowak manually annotated thousands of slices of the scroll, labeling each trace of ink or ...

Contestants in the ongoing Vesuvius Challenge continue to reveal more information about the calcified scrolls once buried by ...

The Third Book of Enoch takes the biblical figure of Enoch to a whole new level—turning him into the archangel Metatron, a being second only to God. Written centuries after the earlier Enoch texts, ...

Bird symbol of good luck according to folklore Slideshows ...

The Druze faith has deep connection to Greek philosophy, especially Pythagorean and Platonic thought, and its belief in reincarnation.

Drama was the ubiquitous speech-act spectacle of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean, and as such, offers an unrivaled interdisciplinary lens into a wide variety of textual, visual, and kinesthetic ...

Following the horrific terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, that claimed the lives of multiple innocent civilians on April 22, several prominent figures from the film industry have ...

"What makes this discovery particularly interesting is that it belongs to the extinct 'hell ant,' known for their bizarre predatory adaptations. Despite being part of an ancient lineage, this species ...

Then a massive bell tolls, as text on the screen tells us it’s ONE YEAR LATER. We cut from this profound blackness, filled out by the sound of the tremendous GONNNGGGGG, to a dazzlingly white ...