By most historical accounts, the Roman Emperor Caligula was a nightmare–a sadistic, debaucherous, and unstable despot.

Divers have spent decades exploring Greece's ancient Antikythera wreck. The latest expedition found relics and retrieved ...

It was a mechanical marvel, so advanced that it baffled archaeologists and scientists for over a century. A device that would ...

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

Ancient Greek military thinking and strategy presents useful lessons for modern military theorists and practitioners.

Nymphs offer us more than just stories of sexy nature spirits. They can reveal how ancient people thought about their world ...

Two thieves donned diving gear to pilfer hundreds of ancient Greek and Roman artifacts from the bottom of the sea in Egypt, according to the country’s interior ministry.

The Antikythera mechanism, a mysterious ancient Greek device that is often called the world’s first computer, may not have functioned at all, according to a simulation of its workings. But ...

Fragments of the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek analog computer that is believed to be used to help teach Greeks about our place in the cosmos. Credit: National Archaeological Museum ...

Archaeologists recently excavated an ancient workshop on Paros, Greece, revealing unfinished sculptures and intriguing artifacts from the Classical period.

An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time. ... The original mechanism involved 37 gear-wheels held together by a complex pin-and-slot system, the researchers report in the Nov. 30 Nature.

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.