Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, ...

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With the historic events of May 2026, marked by the U.S. government’s unprecedented declassification of thousands of military and intelligence files, the gap between ancient mythology and modern ...

(Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities/Facebook) Here's something archaeologists don't see every day, or indeed ever: An ancient Egyptian mummy with an excerpt from the classic Greek text the ...

In a discovery that feels almost like something out of a movie, archaeologists working in Egypt have uncovered fragments of a famous ancient text hidden inside a Roman-era mummy. But this isn’t just ...

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 ...