Since Athens is considered the birthplace of democracy, the ancient Greek statesman Pericles must be considered its father.

BC, dawned heavy with the anticipation of battle. On the plains of Mantinea, the fate of the Greek world hung in the balance.

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

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

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 ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing for over 1,000 years. Etched on ...

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

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