The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

New research suggests ancient Mars may have been warm and wet, with rainfall or snowmelt carving its iconic valleys.

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Featuring a theater for 200 people, it highlights ancient Greece’s blend of physical and intellectual pursuits. Eratosthenes became the first person to calculate the Earth’s circumference with ...