A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...

Excerpt**: Small but potent, a lead tablet dating back to 450 BCE offers a striking reminder of how ancient Greeks and Romans ...

Addressing the opening of the inaugural World Conference of Classics here on Thursday Martin Kern a sinologist and professor at Princeton University ...

Kern, also president of the American Oriental Society, the United States, argued that studying ancient China or Greece in isolation ... research on early Chinese manuscripts.

Known as a “curse tablet,” which was acquired five years ago by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, is actually a thin sheet of lead about the size of a playing card. On it are inscribed 10 ...

The Los Angeles museum presents a spectacular if scattershot show containing over 100 works, ranging from medieval ...

Cristoforo Buondelmonti, an Italian priest and explorer, was passionate about sharing his knowledge of Greece, its history and its geography ... The 186-page long atlas contains both printed and ...

The enigmatic Book of Enoch has captivated scholars and laypeople alike for millennia. Brace yourself for a thought-provoking ...

The oldest known stone tablet featuring the Ten Commandments is set for auction at Sotheby’s and may sell for as much as $2 ...

For his first non-American subject, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns chose Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci.