Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

The lecture hall was discovered during excavations at Agrigento, the site of the largest ancient Greek settlement in Sicily. Photo by Thomas Lappi and Monika Trümper, FU Berlin, Institute of ...

The pair, possibly husband and wife, stand within a niche on the boundary wall of a monumental ancient tomb. “The delicacy and detail of the sculpture is remarkable,” according to a journal ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. In Greek and Roman ...

Ancient Greek depiction of boxing on a Panathenaic ... the brutal “scale” rule applied with the agreement of both opponents. The “Boxer,” a Hellenistic Greek bronze sculpture. Credit: ...

On its grounds, researchers have found Greek papyri, weapons ... found onsite Emil Aladjem / Israel Antiquities Authority An ancient button found onsite Robbery Prevention Unit / Israel ...

Andong, South Korea - At South Korea’s thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a ... that once hung on an ancient wooden structure nearby ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ...