Long before Venetian castles and cobbled tourist streets, Nafplio was one of the most strategically vital harbors in the Bronze Age Aegean, its name recorded in a 14th century BC Egyptian inscription ...

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Joshua Jackson and Katie Holmes have been friends since their 'Dawson's Creek' days and their relationship is still going ...

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There are not many people who have had as influential a life as they have a legacy, but Leonardo da Vinci is one of those ...

The 2,000-year-old papyrus revealed previously unknown writing by a pre-Socratic philosopher, Empedocles.

In an episode of “Deadline: White House” on MS NOW on March 31, a US veteran quoted "Know the enemy as yourself" from ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu. The veteran said the US have not recognized ...

The power of kindness has been discussed for centuries. From ancient philosophers to modern musings from authors and actors, there is no shortage of wisdom on the power of being kind. Whether you need ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself? The idea that aliens assisted the ...

The Goths were a multi-ethnic society, according to a study of DNA from Gothic graves. The people buried there had ancestry from places as far afield as Scandinavia, modern-day Turkey and North Africa ...

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 ...