The delicious Greek cookies melomakarona and kourabiedes are two treats, which for Greeks, embody Christmas itself.

Unlike Mykonos and Santorini, this quiet Greek island offers an escape to a simpler, more authentic way of life—one that ...

Choking on his own blood, the king called Clytemnestra a name that can only be translated as “bitch-face.” Even though she has been portrayed as a villain in numerous ancient Greek tragedies, few ...

One of ancient Egypt’s earliest deities, Min was thought to be the embodiment of male sexual fertility. In iconography, he is often holding his erect penis in one hand and the Lactuca serriola ...

There are all kinds of lasagna in Italy, and one of them doesn't have tomato sauce. Instead, it's layered with tiny meatballs ...

"We've shown that a simpler way to make nanofibers using flour is possible." The next thinnest known pasta, called su filindeu, or Threads of God, was made by hand by a pasta maker in the town of ...

The alphabetic writing system was identified on finger-length clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in an ancient Syrian city known as Tell Umm-el Marra. The artifacts came to light during a 16 ...

But that’s all kind of indirect. What would be amazing is if we could actually get the kind of data we get from folks today, just from, say, you know, ancient Romans or Vikings or medieval Persians.

What appears to be evidence of some of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in Syria by a team of Johns Hopkins University ...

The writing was etched onto clay cylinders discovered during a dig at an ancient Syrian city. What appears to be evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger ...

Designs on ancient stone cylinders correspond to origin of writing in Mesopotamia, researchers discover Nov 5, 2024 Oldest piece of writing ever found in Israel identified on ancient shard of pottery ...

Here's why that matters. Instead, we may be able to infer whether they ever interbred by looking at ancient proteins, which are coded for by DNA, she said. By looking at proteins in tooth enamel ...