The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Authorities on the Greek island of Crete have arrested six people allegedly involved in an antiquities smuggling operation ...

Take a gently paced coastal road trip from Kalamata in the southern Peloponnese to Parga in Epirus to experience ancient ...

The Ship of Theseus thought experiment is a long-standing problem in philosophy that has been debated for centuries.

The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.

Young Greek American filmmaker Alexander Pagonis explores tradition, identity, and isolation in his debut documentary Man Over Aegean.

Which Michigan State basketball players can return after its 2025 March Madness exit? The 2-seed Spartans saw their season come to an end Sunday night in Atlanta in the Elite Eight of the NCAA ...

Spartan boys were taken from their families at age 7—not to play, but to be forged into warriors. This is the story of the agoge, Sparta’s unforgiving system of military training.

Cecrops, Athens’ first king, banned bloody sacrifices and reformed worship with laws, morality, and symbolic offerings.

This illustration provided by researchers in April 2025 depicts a Denisovan male in Taiwan in the Pleistocene era about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago. (Cheng-Han Sun via AP) (Cheng-Han Sun ...

An ancient civilization on Mars was wiped out by a nuclear attack from another alien race. It might sound like the plot of a science fiction novel, but Harvard scientist Dr John Brandenburg ...