The ancient silver coins feature the images of 11 Roman emperors and empresses, including Nero and Marcus Aurelius.

Among the recovered items were 15 ancient oil lamps, 17 figurines or fragments, several ceramic vessels, and a marble ...

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

Excavated from a nearly 2,000-year-old villa in Valencia, Spain, the broken-up murals once formed fresco decor ...

Ancient historians recorded legends about the invention of the first coins, and archaeologists have found some surprising ...

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.

Archaeologists often spend long amounts of time at a dig site, only to dig up garbage such as bottle caps and soda cans, or even nothing at all. If these researchers manage to dis ...

The National Archaeological Museum of Naples is showcasing 600 recovered objects, which date to between the Archaic period ...