The four clay troughs were initially thought to have served as stands for gold-plated staffs. Now, a researcher has presented ...

F amous for its iconic pyramid and temples, the ancient Maya city of Tikal is no stranger to imperial conflict, having ...

An ancient Mayan altar in Tikal, a 2,400-year-old city in Guatemala, evidences a quasi-imperial control system before the ...

A chair shaped like a hooded cobra and a table that evokes a scarab beetle feature in designer Omar Chakil's Transcendence ...

After nearly 1,700 years, a new temple dedicated to Zeus and Pan has been built in Arcadia, Greece, reviving ancient Hellenic worship. The temple, constructed on a private estate by Dr. Manolis ...

When Julius Caesar wrote a series of histories about the Gallic Wars around 53 B.C.E., he mentioned a fascinating group of ...

Archaeologists uncover an ancient burial site with Egyptian, Greek, and Roman graves at Tell Ruwad Iskandar, Egypt. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient ...

The temple of Hephaestus, as seen from the Ancient Agora, Athens, Greece ... The Greeks were polytheistic, worshipping gods such as Zeus, Athena, and Apollo. Every city-state had a patron deity, with ...

The tomb was found within an ancient Egyptian necropolis in Abydos. The burial is located about 23 feet (7 meters) underground and contains a limestone burial chamber covered with mudbrick vaults ...

Marble sculpture of the Greek god Apollo from the 2nd century AD. Credit: Reuters. For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of ...

The mummy of a first-century-B.C. individual found in Egypt was not pregnant and did not have cancer, according to a new CT study.