A new documentary details a project to revamp an 1,800-year-old hymn for a modern audience. The Oxyrhynchus Hymn is the oldest surviving Christian hymn with musical notation — and was rewritten by ...

Olson solves puzzles ... words, he spent his days inside a lab delving into topics that few people outside the lab understood. Then, one evening two decades ago, he and his wife, Marilynn, an ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

According to the ancient ... to light how Roman institutions and imperial law could influence the administration of justice in a provincial setting where relatively few people were Roman citizens.

31. Augusta – Majestic, venerable 32. Livia – Blue, envious, or related to olive trees 33. Martina – Little Mars, or warlike ...

In a statement translated from Italian to English, the Ostia Antica Archaeological ... The latest discovery is the only ancient Roman-era mikveh found in Europe. The only other ancient mikveh ...

Challenging word-based games are not a modern invention. In early medieval England there was a strong appetite for word ...

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

Priestesses, in the Roman ... other words. She was there on her own terms. From golden Mycenae to the ash-blasted ruins of Pompeii, the remains from the ancient world are telling us a different ...

With how fast the Scots are known for talking, many people ... words, phrases and sayings we have in the Scottish dialect that can be difficult for non-Scots to understand and pick up. Despite ...

MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos merely smiled when asked whether the Philippines would rejoin the Rome Statute, the treaty that created the International Criminal Court (ICC), which now ...

London is a city of layers, where shining skyscrapers are built atop some of the city’s oldest ancient sites. Recent excavations, such as a Roman basilica unearthed in London’s financial ...