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 ...

An ancient object that Jessica Lamont uses in her Yale classes may not appear menacing, but in Greek antiquity it was used for malevolent purposes.

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.

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

Reserachers at Western University are finding, preserving and catalouging mediveal manuscript fragments found in early print books.

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

People seldom asked who had written a text, nor was the author's name included on bamboo or silk manuscripts, which is very ...