Byzantium was one of the most important cities of the ancient world. About 1,000 years after its founding, it was chosen by Emperor Constantine the Great to serve as the new capital of the Roman ...

Byzantium was one of the most important cities of the ancient world ... What many people don't know is that there is a similar story in Greek mythology, just as Greek mythology has its own... The ...

Looking for raids in Nebraska, Google tells me that ICE published a press release about the arrest of 44 people it swept up ... At first blush, it looks like ICE is juicing public perception ...

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The few that could be opened were philosophical texts written in ancient Greek. But most of the scrolls were so badly damaged, they were considered illegible. More recently, researchers managed to ...

Archaeologists have discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption millennia before 79 C.E.—foreshadowing the devastation that would later ...

Thessaloniki is set to open Greece’s second crematorium following the publication of a presidential decree in the Government Gazette. The crematorium will be located in the city’s first cemetery, ...

The new V.iaai fossil, estimated to be 68 million to 69 million years old, was found during an expedition in 2011, but has only now been analyzed. The study was published Wednesday (Feb. 5) in the ...

In the story of the Good Samaritan, Jesus seems to come down on the side of the broadest possible application of the love ethic. And by emphasizing a particular type of love – the gut-wrenching kind – ...

Greek officials have declared a state of emergency, and tourists and locals have fled the tourist island of Santorini amid earthquakes in the past few days. The strongest of the quakes are just ...