Peering into the past, we find that our ancestors held a surprisingly advanced understanding of the stars and constellations.

The Infancy Gospel of Thomas tells the story of Jesus as a child. What happens in this story, and why was it rejected from ...

The largest libraries of the ancient world weren’t mere book collections. They were centers of power, education, and survival ...

What looks like a log of charcoal is priceless ancient text that's now decipherable thanks to open-source AI. Credit: Vesuvius Challenge The Herculaneum Papyri, an ancient scroll fossilized by the ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Most people know Caligula as one of history’s most deranged rulers: a bloodthirsty Roman emperor who supposedly made his horse a consul and murdered people for entertainment. But ...

Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed, ...

How do we understand past societies? For centuries, our main sources of information have been pottery sherds, burial sites, and ancient texts. But the study of ancient DNA is changing what we know ...

The model, called Aeneas, is designed to contextualize Latin inscriptions by tracking down similarities across thousands of ancient texts. Google DeepMind says researchers can adapt Aeneas to other ...