A worker cleans the marble surfaces of the Panathenaic Stadium, also known as “Kallimarmaro,” or beautiful marble, which ...

More than 2,400 years after the burial, a newly unearthed tomb at the ancient city of Aspendos in southern Turkey may offer archaeologists an unusually personal link to the past.

The Feast of the Virgin Mary, with the long-awaited stifado delicacy, in Oxylithos, Evia draws thousands on the August 15 ...

Ancient Greece viewed homosexuality with nuance, honoring noble love while sometimes viewing it as disgrace, with attitudes ...

Pompeii is easily the most recognizable Ancient Roman city. Perfectly preserved after the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, the city is now a popular tourist hub. While the city's streets, ...

Researchers will have to take a closer look to find stronger evidence, but the findings offer a rare look into the people who lived in a wealthy Greek city.

Was Plato on to something, or is the lost city just that?

Two leg bones found on the seabed near Taiwan have been identified as Denisovans, and their size suggests these hominins ...

The Archaeological Park of Pompeii has recreated the Canon of Polykleitos, a masterpiece of ancient Greek sculpture.

Hundreds of tiny skeletons buried beneath an ancient sanctuary in Crete may reveal a fascinating aspect of early religious rituals, inspiring curiosity about lost practices. Archaeologists who ...

In a different time, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey would have been celebrated by the American right as a conservative film. Nolan’s interpretation of Homer’s epic poem is about the unintended ...

A group of women come out from behind a banner placed in front of a small cave, dressed in white ceremonial robes. Men and women of varying ages are standing in a semi-circle while the women lead a ...