Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls carbonized by a ...

A papyrus scroll carbonised by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago is slowly being read once again thanks to ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

A newly analysed fossil skull settles a palaeontological debate over Vegavis iaai, confirming it as a relative of ducks and ...

Scientists have digitally "unwrapped" a 2,000-year-old charred scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum - providing the ...

February usually has 28 days due to a combination of historical, astronomical, and cultural factors.

The Monte Carlo of Ancient Rome was a resort city where emperors and other elites could indulge their wild side amid affairs ...

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.