Archaeologists have made two extraordinary discoveries in the Italian town of Agrigento on Sicily's southwest coast. During ...

No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the ...

The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of ...

Researchers simulated the device's ancient gear system to find out whether the contraption actually worked. Apparently, it ...

Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know how the rams were made ...

With their new production of the epic Hellas, theatergoers will have the opportunity to experience performance as it was done in Ancient Greece: an all-day affair filled with spectacle, masks, period ...

The ancient school complex had a gymnasium with a large swimming pool and 650-foot tracks, archaeologists said.

The Odyssey, the ancient Greek epic poem ascribed to the poet Homer, charts the return home of its eponymous hero, Odysseus.

The Greek sea god Poseidon is said to have sat on Mount Fengari here — at 1,664m, the second highest in the Aegean — to watch the Trojan War, while in ancient times, numerous pilgrims would ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a 2,200-year-old pyramid, Ancient Origins reported ... well-preserved wooden tools, textiles, Greek papyrus documents, colored beads, sewing needles ...

While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece, it's this one in central Athens that garners the most attention. In fact, it's routinely referred to simply as "The ...

Selinunte, Sicily—A team of archaeologists has excavated portions of the long-lost walls and north gate of Selinunte, an influential Greek city in southwestern ... a new park emblem—a silicon leaf ...