Researchers are using a very modern tool to transcribe and read hundreds of thousands of medieval manuscripts from the lost ...

Sappho sang of desire, passion, and love, mostly directed towards women. She remains the most mysterious of ancient poets.

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Answer: Great white sharks, but the number of attacks is small. There have been 59 fatal great white shark attacks since — ...

The sole surviving sample of Queen Cleopatra's handwriting, found on an ancient papyrus, reveals a single Greek word, ...

The view from Flame restaurant, in the Costa Navarino resort area, takes in an 18-hole golf course. Photograph by Thomas Linkel, Laif/Redux Separated from mainland Greece by the Corinth canal, the ...

Songwriters living in ancient Egypt would never have expected the words and melodies they sung would feature on Australian music charts 1,800 years later.

A Dublin student choir’s rendition of the old Irish song "Mo Ghile Mear" (My Gallant Darling) is sure to strike emotion in anyone who listens to it and give you shivers down your spine. The Choral ...

After the White House used a Sabrina Carpenter song without her permission, the pop star is keeping her response short and sweet. The "Espresso" singer, 26, took to X to slam the White House for using ...

The nightjar has one of the strangest voices in British wildlife, and people have been trying to explain it for thousands of years. Its soft, haunting call carries across heathland at dusk, and the ...

Podcasts Music Commentary Song of the Day From MPR News Music lovers from 89.3 The Current comb through mountains of music to choose the best new, independent, and unreleased songs to share with you ...