From the dawn of civilization, humanity has sought answers to the mysteries of existence — creation, life, death, and the divine. Every culture developed its ...

There is a story about the Vestal Virgins that illuminates the religion of ancient Rome. It comes from 390 BC, when things ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

Whether standing stones, nondescript mounds, or lines in the earth, ancient civilizations have left signs of their existence that must have held deep meaning for them that is now lost to time.

A young harpist has performed a rendition of a 2,000-year-old ancient Greek song, thought to be the oldest complete piece of ...