Archaeologists in Peru uncoverd a massive circular tomb holding 24 skeletons, revealing signs of ancient violent conflict.

The National Archaeological Museum of Naples is showcasing 600 recovered objects, which date to between the Archaic period and the Middle Ages ...

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether it would have worked without jamming ...

The opening ceremony of a special exhibition on Minoan civilization in Greece was held on Monday at the Palace Museum in Beijing.

The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It was a long stretch of time that spanned from ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

Hypotheses for their use range from percussion tools to hunting implements. However, the equally fascinating naturally occurring lithic items have been less extensively studied, usually only given ...

The layer with Egyptian and Greek pottery fragments described in the latest study is among several layers that date from after 732 B.C., when records indicate Megiddo was conquered by the Neo ...

and pottery dating from between the 4th century B.C.E. and the late Roman era. At that time, the Greek ministry hailed the find as “proof of the existence of the ancient city.” This recent ...

Ancient Greece gave us many things, from mythology to democracy by way of the Olympics, but if I recall my (very) old primary-school project correctly, one thing Archimedes and pals never got ...

The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and northeastern Algeria — shows that Stone Age populations who lived there more than 8,000 ...

The discovery of large amounts of Egyptian and Greek pottery at Megiddo confirmed that ... stronghold and a cultural crossroads in the ancient Near East. The article was written with the ...