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 ...

Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the ...

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 ...

According to the ancient notes, the tax-evasion scheme involved the falsification of documents and the illicit sale and manumission, or freeing, of slaves — all to avoid paying duties in the far ...

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

An entire ancient Egyptian settlement from the New Kingdom, also known as the Golden Age of Egypt, surfaced from beneath Greek ruins at the site of Kom el-Nugus near Alexandria; A ...

A chlorite bull-headed rhyton dating to 1500 to 1450 BC is displayed near the gallery entrance and serves as a guide into the Minoan world. The intricately carved vessel was used to hold sacrificial ...

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 ...