Pattern adds depth and storytelling to a room. At best, it’s pure magic. A really beautiful pattern is a portal into another ...

Peritas the legendary dog followed Alexander the Great on the path to glory, fighting alongside his master and saving his ...

While Odysseus and Achilles fought for the same cause, they embody two different approaches to ancient Greek heroism.

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...

Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...

Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...

An method driven by artificial intelligence is making it possible to read texts scorched and left buried by the eruption of ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

Apollonius is far from the only ancient scholar whose work was saved by the medieval Islamic tradition: “we generally ...