While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Nick Angeloff, an archaeologist at Cal Poly Humboldt, has called the developments at Gradishte a once-in-a-lifetime discovery ...

However, researchers have uncovered what they believe to be a massive subterranean gold deposit, potentially the largest of ...

Jo Marchant, Nature In 1900, Greek divers rifling through an ancient shipwreck recovered dozens ... Date: First century A.D. How it works: A person puts a coin in a slot at the top of a box.

Phryne the Thespian was a notable ancient Greek hetaira, or courtesan ... The drawing on the vase called... Ancient Athens' oldest coins, minted in the period of the Athenian tyranny in the lead up to ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

The Eye of Horus is frequently found in ancient Egyptian burials, particularly on wedjat amulets.

realized that it was written in ancient Greek. In light of the document’s complexity and extraordinary length, a team of scholars was assembled to conduct a detailed physical examination and ...

Metal detectorists in modern-day Romania discovered a stash of silver treasure from around 500 B.C. The silver treasure ...

Other artifacts demonstrate a kaleidoscope of facets of the everyday life of the Minoans. Decorations on a gold signet ring ...

South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, home to early human fossils, reopened after three years, offering tourists a chance to engage with live scientific research. Seated on sandbags in a knee-deep ...

ATHENS, Greece — A new extremist group claims responsibility for a bomb that exploded near the offices of Hellenic Train, Greece’s main railway services operator, and the planting of another ...