For centuries, Christian communities took candles that they would use in the coming months to their church to be blessed as symbols of Jesus, light of the world — to mark both this festival and, in ...

Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution in the environment dating to around 5,200 years ago. That's ...

Although some movies and media depict ancient people as unclean, that’s not entirely accurate. The ancients had hygiene practices, especially … Continue reading "15+ Strange Hygiene Habits Of The Anci ...

The word ‘Aura’, with its Latin and Ancient Greek origins saying it as another word for wins, is described in the Oxford English Dictionary as a distinctive ambience or quality generated by a person ...

Step back in time and hear Alexander the Great’s legendary speech as it would have sounded in Ancient Greek. This recreation ...

Monsters are everywhere. Vampires (like the one in the recently released Nosferatu) and zombies are the most popular of the ...

Ancient Greeks knew a thing or two when it came to herbs, and oregano is one that they simply could not do without.

The lentil-shaped objects were unearthed in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman ...

One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...

WTOP evening anchor Dimitri Sotis, whose deep, warm voice informed and kept listeners in the D.C. region company, has died at ...

Siddharth from India married Penelope, a woman from Greece, in a traditional Vedic wedding ceremony at the Kumbh Mela.