This unique degree programme offers training in an unparalleled range of ancient languages and their associated history, culture and textual traditions. Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin ...

A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the world’s earliest civilizations.

But the citrus genus has a surprising history, popping up everywhere from ancient Rome and the Renaissance to naval exploration and Casanova's famed romantic trysts. The history of citrus dates ...

The Sterkfontein excavation site, which exposes the ancient deposits that once formed underground and contain Australopithecus fossils. The fossil-bearing red sediments clearly contrast with the grey ...

Asclepius appears in Homer’s well-known work, Iliad, as a skilled physician and father to two Greek doctors. However, the healer later became a heroic figure in the ancient world and eventually ...

Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...

One of the milestones in the trajectory of economic and social change that spurred increasing societal complexity, and urbanization was the commodification of natural resources, such as plants, ...

This flexible degree programme with three different routes offers the opportunity to develop expertise in one or more ancient languages, from Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Hittite, Akkadian or ...

The release of Cecil B. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah in 1949 heralded the return of the ancient world to the screen. It’s a movie filled with blood, desire, and a doomed romance, as the ...