The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics begin in one week, and the United Nations and organizers are calling for a 7-week pause of all wars worldwide — as they do every time the Olympics take place.

Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...

Ancient Greeks viewed dreams as divine messages, omens or natural phenomena, with interpretations from Homer, Plato, Aristotle and others.

Researchers using a synchrotron at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been able to recover pieces of the Hipparchus star catalog that had been overwritten.

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

Excavations at the Acropolis of ancient Kythnos made discoveries that reshape our understanding of the island's long-term habitation.