The so-called Ionian Revolt was the beginning of a series of events and war reprisals between Ancient Greeks and Persians.

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...

A 210,000-year-old skull from Greece’s Apidima Cave reveals the earliest known Homo sapiens outside Africa, pushing back the ...

Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...

Recent excavations in Lefkada, Greece, revealed the first-ever ancient Greek theater discovered in the Ionian Islands.

Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

Chemical analyses revealed wine residue on both expensive goblets and common cups unearthed among the legendary city's ruins ...

Eunapius of Sardis, a Greek historian and rhetorician who lived between the 4th and 5th centuries AD, wrote a Life of the ...

The Acropolis of Athens is a massive archaeological site brimming with the spiritual, artistic, and democratic wonders of ancient Greece, but with every turn ... its namesake in memory of his Roman ...

has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece -- New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago ...