Discover a city where North African charm meets Mediterranean ease. Often overshadowed by its fashionable neighbours, it is ...

The individuals from Crete trafficked 15 ancient oil lamps, 17 figurines or fragments, several ceramic vessels, and a marble ...

Six individuals were arrested on Crete for allegedly running an antiquities smuggling ring. The group attempted to sell a ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

As a way forward, the Tinu­bu-led administration, which once called for a Government of National Unity, may consider setting up a high-powered but non-partisan committee to take a critical look at ...

The domestication of grapevine was a slow process in Italy, taking place over thousands of years, according to a study ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

Over the next several hundred years, marriage evolved into a widespread institution embraced by the ancient Hebrews ... For "much of the early Christian Era, the Church stayed out of weddings ...

Ancient Greeks developed sophisticated units of measurement ranging from measuring length, distance, volume, and weight of ...

The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.