The ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides is considered by many to be the father of pharmacology for authoring De ...

Amazons fight Greeks on a terra-cotta lekythos (oil flask) from the fifth century B.C. Amazon battle scenes, known as Amazonomachy, were popular in ancient Greek art. Metropolitan Museum, New York ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

The roar of the arena crowd, the bustle of the Roman forum, the grand temples, the Roman army in red with glistening shields ...

Bodies, potentially decaying, were a more common sight in ancient Rome than now. Suetonius, writing in the first century CE, ...

Leo is the Latin word for "lion," as well as being a summer zodiac sign for babies born from late July to late August.

The ancient Greeks shared the Classical world with many fascinating neighboring cultures who rarely receive much mainstream attention.