When Alexander the Great visited the tomb of Cyrus of Persia, he found it ransacked and ordered that the tomb be restored.

Ancient Athens was sacked four times, starting with the Persian invasion in 480 BC and ending with the Visigoth destruction in 396 AD ...

The Hormuz crisis under President Trump mirrors historical military blunders, notably Xerxes' failed conquest of Greece and the Suez Canal debacle of 1956. Trump's aggressive stance against Iran, ...

Researchers found a 3,300-year-old papyrus where an artist used white pigment to slim a jackal figure. The correction appears in a Book of the Dead created for the royal scribe Ramose. Analysis ...

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Penn State scientists uncovered an ancient bacterial defense where dormant viral DNA helps bacteria fight new viral threats. The enzyme PinQ flips bacterial genes to create protective proteins that ...

Alexander Papachristidis-Bove has been appointed Chairman of the Board and Managing Director of Hellespont Steamship Corp, the Piraeus-based ship management and marine services company, with effect ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with archaeologist Gary Feinman about new findings that show democracy existed throughout the ancient world and was not exclusive to Mediterranean Europe. If you think ancient ...

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