Could an ancient Athenian understand a Byzantine Greek speaker and realize they spoke different versions of the same language ...

What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome? the oldest known writing dates to around 5000 BCE. It origins are mysterious ...

A letter claimed to have been written by a possessed nun almost 350 years ago has finally been translated. Sister Maria ...

MORE than 70 years after being discovered, a scientist has deciphered an ancient message from the final Dead Sea Scrolls. Dubbed the Cryptic B manuscripts, the two heavily damaged fragments ...

One of the last undeciphered Dead Sea Scrolls has been decoded, revealing biblical phrases and themes about the end of days.

From Latin and Chinese to Tamil and Telugu, discover the top ten most popular writing scripts used around the world ...

As a young man, Goethe visited Jewish schools in Frankfurt, and even attended a circumcision and a Jewish wedding ...

A researcher has finally cracked the code of two ancient Dead Sea Scroll fragments that baffled scholars for more than 70 ...

As an epic poem about the Trojan War, that momentous clash of two great armies around the city of Troy, Homer’s Iliad describes many acts of combat. Of these, the climactic battle to which all the ...

Greg Jenner is joined by historian Dr Kristi Upson-Saia and comedian Stu Goldsmith to explore the strange world of Ancient Greek and Roman medicine. Welcome to a world where health was fleeting, water ...

Recent excavations in the ancient Etruscan city of Vulci revealed the head of a marble statue that appears to have Greek influence. The head belongs to a kore, statues made in the images of young ...

The Greeks pretty much invented the theatre. Thousands of people packed the hillside arena of ancient Athens to watch plays by famous writers like Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. The Greeks also ...