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

Boxing in ancient Greece originated as a very tough sport, much harder than professional boxing as we know it today.

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of ...

Official history asserts that the Jewish people have existed continuously from the time of Abraham to the present day, thanks ...

dates back to the Hellenistic period under Ptolemaic and Seleucid rule. The excavation has already yielded a treasure trove of artifacts: Greek papyrus documents, Ptolemaic and Antiochus IV bronze ...

Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and Roman art in Copenhagen, Denmark, says ancient texts provide evidence that statues were often ...

New research is shedding light on the bouleuterion building that once stood in the ancient city of Teos, located in ...

The Greek municipality of Tenea boasts a rich ancient history—and the archaeological ... resembled that of Macedonian tombs built during Hellenistic times (323 B.C.E.–31 B.C.E.). The T-shaped ...

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 ...

Now that medley of marble has taken its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean and settled into the Art Institute of Chicago where, starting this weekend, the ancient works will hold court in the ...