Sappho sang of desire, passion, and love, mostly directed towards women. She remains the most mysterious of ancient poets.
The sole surviving sample of Queen Cleopatra's handwriting, found on an ancient papyrus, reveals a single Greek word, ...
Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have unveiled a unique papyrus from the collections held by the Israel Antiquities ...
The charred scrolls of Herculaneum, buried under the ash of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, were long thought to be undecipherable. But new technology has allowed researchers to see what’s ...
Eleven letters, written by Simon Bar Kochba, leader of the Jewish revolt against the Roman Emperor Hadrian in 132-135 A. D., have been found in a cave near the Dead Sea, it was announced here last ...
Register here for this hybrid talk. This remarkable story started with the excavation by the Egyptian archaeologist Basem Gehad of a grave in the ancient Egyptian city Philadelphia resulting in the ...
Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a 2,200-year-old pyramid, Ancient Origins reported. Researchers from the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Ministry of Heritage worked together with ...