A CT scan of a 3,000-year-oldmummified crocodile revealed a brass hook and its last meal in an undigested state, offering new ...

The small, but vibrant, community of Greeks, with roots deep in history, remains in the Egyptian capital of Cairo to this day ...

It adds weight to the account of Greek historian, Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the 5th century BC and wrote about pigs ...

THE chilling secrets of ancient Egyptian “crocodile cults” have been unveiled thanks to a 3,000-year-old mummy. It has taken ...

The ancient Greeks shared the Classical world with many fascinating neighboring cultures who rarely receive much mainstream ...

It is the greatest possible pleasure to join in his birthday celebration. This is not a wide–ranging investigation of Herodotus' interest in or attitude to the Persian Empire or the Persian character.

such as “the enormously wealthy Pythius (an ancient Greek architect) did who had some 4 million darics in his coffers as ...

Herodotus' Histories was composed well before the genre of Greek historiography emerged as a distinct narrative enterprise. This book explores it within its fifth-century context alongside the extant ...

Herodotus, the Greek historian who wrote in the 5th century B.C., 500 years before Christ, is the earliest known chronicler and historian of the Egyptian Pyramid Age. By his accounts, the labor ...

Cheaters in the ancient Olympics were thrashed with a rod. But what is to be done when the cheater is the king?

Here are six of South Africa’s top hot springs to visit for a wintertime warm-up. Record rains have battered the Western Cape ...

Ice cream vans could soon be stocking “Red Rum and Raisin” after food scientists discovered the dessert is healthier if made ...