A stamped tile fragment with part of the name of Odysseus dates to the Hellenistic period. While archeologists still can’t definitively point to Odysseus’ existence, additional discoveries in the form ...

As if being a scholar in ancient Greek wasn't hard enough fundamentally, the primary texts they rely on are frequently damaged beyond repair, being as they are thousands of years old. Historians may ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

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A shepherd walking through the highlands of Mugla’s Seydikemer district discovered a Roman‑era grave stele bearing carved ...

A new deep neural network could help historians restore ancient inscriptions, identify their original location, and date them with impressive accuracy. Named Ithaca and developed by DeepMind, a ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Machine learning techniques are providing new tools that could help archaeologists understand the past — ...

Who was Maria who died on February 9 some 1400 years ago, and whose burial stone has now been discovered in Nitzana National Park? A stone bearing an inscription in Greek from the end of the Byzantine ...

Researchers in the United Kingdom have found that an ancient Greek inscription on a 2,000-year-old marble tablet is actually something resembling a yearbook for a graduating class, according to a new ...

Ancient Greek records contain stories about Greek alphabet origins. Could the Greek alphabet actually have an Egyptian ...