In an age when ‘drip’ is a compliment and ‘extra’ is not, it is a very fine line between speaking properly and coming across ...

Figs, Syko in Greek, represented an important product of the ancient Athenian economy ... advantage,” according to the Cambridge Dictionary. This is something many people have most likely witnessed in ...

which is one of the largest such sites in the Mediterranean and includes the remains of an ancient Greek colony founded in the 7th century BC. The discovery was on the same site where 107 Roman ...

Between 1550 and 30 B.C., many ancient Egyptian paintings and sculptures depicted men and women wearing small, conical adornments on top of their heads. The type of activities people did while ...

Aotearoa New Zealand's true ancient species are animals like Kākāpō, small wrens, bats and freshwater limpets, not recent Aussie immigrants like kiwi, moa and takahē. This is the conclusion ...

In that glacial sample from the Himalayas, scientists have now identified more than 1,700 ancient viruses, though they note that these species do not infect humans. Their findings, tracing how the ...

To play this audio you need to enable JavaScript. Hello. Welcome to The English We Speak, where we explain phrases used by fluent English speakers so that you can use them, too! I'm Feifei ...

One of the world’s pre-eminent scholars on Ancient Greek history, Professor Paul Cartledge of Cambridge University, has weighed in decisively on the origins of Alexander the Great in the most recent ...

Tim Steinruck will also be one of the overseas artist who will feature on the RiseUp TV tour. Originally written and sung in English, Ancient Dusk has added its signature sound and vocal arrangement ...

Ariel Geller's family was invited for a guided tour of Haifa's Hecht Museum in Israel, a few days after the four-year-old smashed a rare, 3,500-year-old jar in the museum. The museum told the BBC ...

VOLOS, Greece – Greek authorities have started collecting hundreds of thousands of dead fish that poured into a tourist port in the central city of Volos this week after being displaced from ...