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 ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

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 ...

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

Little did Leonidas know that over 2,500 years later, "Molon Lave" would be used as a global marketing tool -from weapons to ...

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

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.

The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. Perhaps somewhere in the language is a word that describes what we do when we have an attack of ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd ... For example, by studying people's names, word choice and writing styles, scholars may better ...