The great epics of Greek tragedy were performed as memorized orations. Yes, they became the printed word when copied onto ...

An omission erased the name of the only woman to receive a New Testament letter. A BYU researcher is restoring her name and ...

Archaeologists in the Judaean Desert have uncovered a 2,200-year-old pyramid-shaped stone structure, shedding light on an ...

Historians are occasionally forced to revise their preconceived notions after discovering something hidden in the shadows and ...

Recent archaeological discoveries and scholarly research are shedding new light on the reign of Cleopatra VII, the last ...

A few months after investors lapped up her debut Nordic bond, major Greek owner Angeliki Frangou returns to the Norwegian finance scene for a second issue. If the second run hits the upper end of its ...

Researchers have translated an ancient Greek document from 267 AD, which talks about an ancient wrestling match that was fixed, Live Science reports. The document is a contract between the guarantors ...

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 ...

An ancient Egyptian manuscript may prove the biblical 10 plagues described in the Book of Exodus. Known as the Ipuwer Papyrus, the document takes the form of a poetic lament attributed to a scribe ...

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 ...

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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 ...