New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...

During the Early Bronze Age, the Southern Levant's inability to support mass sheep herding left the region lagging behind ...

Science on Tap is a free, monthly event hosted by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and debuting on Feb. 11, intended to bring UTC experts to the community to address questions about ... more ...

The letter "J," as pronounced in modern English, did not even exist in the alphabet during Jesus’ time. Furthermore, "Christ" was not a surname but a title derived from the Greek word "Christos ...

For example, the ancient Greek population during the Archaic Period was, naturally, significantly less than during the Hellenistic Period when the conquests of Alexander the Great had great numbers of ...

WEST AFRICA has long been a source of booze. In Yoruba mythology Obatala, a deity sent to create humans, stumbled on palm wine and fell into a drunken slumber before completing the task.

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died during a police siege, as a local volunteer described the horror ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

In this article, Dr John Bristow of the Overberg Geoscientists Group writes about the centenary of diamond prospecting and mining along the West Coast of South Africa and the legends that shaped the ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been retrieved from a discontinued gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water supplies for months, in what trade unions called a “horrific ...

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Derveni Papyrus, named for the ...