Pyrrhichios was the ancient Greek war dance that originated from the mythical demons, the Couretes, who danced to save the newborn Zeus.

A long-lost, popular song used in Babylon schools has been reconstructed, revealing how children learned to write and civic ...

The Phaistos Disc has been treated for more than a century as one of archaeology’s great undeciphered “texts.” But a new study argues the mystery may be both simpler and stranger than a lost language.

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

As early as 4,500 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, for instance, gender-diverse people held important roles in society with ...

New research suggests the Phaistos Disc was not an ancient text but a board game, based on evidence from design, and ...

A previously undocumented language has been discovered at the site of Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Hittite ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

Is our universe the first? Nobel laureate Roger Penrose believes there was another universe before ours, and our beginning was the end of another. While his theory has been dismissed, people have ...

These ancient structures still stand - but the people who built them remain a mystery that history can’t fully explain.

During excavations at the Hilla archaeological site in southern Bahrain, archaeologists uncovered a roughly 3,300-year-old ...

Breard's interest in Chinese scientific history was ignited by Chinese Mathematics: A Concise History, a book that chronicles ...