Adults learning another language often tend to continue using the intonation of their native language. This causes them to ...

Fragments of the Hydraulis—the ancient Greek water organ—were unearthed in the Dion, at the foot of Mount Olympus in 1992.

In the 4th century BC, the Greek engineer Aeneas of Stymphalus devised a groundbreaking communication system known as the hydraulic telegraph. This ancient invention utilized synchronized water clocks ...

In ‘The Queer Thing About Sin’ (Bloomsbury Continuum, Jan.), the classicist argues that ancient history reveals a connection ...

The value of horror is that it gives us a safe space to process fear, writes Dr Aislinn Clarke ...

A funny thing about Athens that only geography, history, and linguistic buffs would notice is that its very name holds a clue to its origins. In Ancient Greek, the city’s name was written as “Athenai” ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Abstract: Vedic texts are wise and profound but hard to comprehend for modern readers. Advancements in AI, particularly in NLP, have presented a new opportunity to interpret complex texts. This paper ...

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Scattered across the archeological sites of the Eurasian continent, hundreds of female-shaped statues have resurfaced, dating back to more than 40,000 years ago. Colloquially known as “Venus” statues, ...

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Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has dismissed recent foreign media claims suggesting that the Tomb of King Tutankhamun in Luxor is at risk of collapse due to cracks and rising humidity.