The Ten Plagues of Egypt are argued to have been the result of the eruption of Thera or Santorini. Does the evidence really support this?

The tale of the ancient Greeks in Libya begins in 630 BC with a group of islanders from Thera, Santorini, establishing Cyrene.

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake emphasised that a country cannot progress solely through laws and regulations and highlighted that tradition is a ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

The abbot plans to make these available for worship rentals from yesterday, January 14, at Wat Sangachai Thera in Suan Tang subdistrict, Mueang district, Suphan Buri province. Reporters learnt that ...

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Derveni Papyrus, named for the ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...

US late-stage biopharma firm Sling Therapeutics today announced top-line efficacy and safety data from the Phase IIb/III LIDS trial of linsitinib in patients with active, moderate to severe thyroid ...

Here’s how it works. An ancient and enigmatic stone circle in the Middle East may not be a prehistoric astronomical observatory after all, according to a new study of satellite images.

The Colombo Magistrate’s Court has sentenced Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera to nine months of simple imprisonment for making a defamatory statement about Islam.

But using ice cores and other ancient data points allows scientists to peer much deeper into the past, and establish that the climate today is likely warmer than it has been in 120,000 years.

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think. The birth of ...