Cinadon’s conspiracy and attempted coup reveal deep social tensions in ancient Sparta and a swift, disciplined response to ...

Cimon was a statesman and general who died conquering the Persians in Cyprus, but his men abandoned the siege to give him a ...

In ancient times, the god of the sea ... It was claimed that the earthquake was a divine punishment after the Spartans slaughtered helots who had taken refuge in the temple of none other than Poseidon ...

Archaeologists recently excavated an ancient workshop on Paros, Greece, revealing unfinished sculptures and intriguing artifacts from the Classical period.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

An announcement on June 9 from the Greek Ministry of Culture cites the discovery of a rare underground spring cistern dating ...

Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...

Learn about the 430,000-year-old stone tools and techniques that allowed ancient humans to butcher elephant meat for a hefty ...

Athens - Archaeologists in Greece have discovered the ruins of an ancient palace with important archaic inscriptions dating back to the Mycenaean Age, the culture ministry said on Tuesday. The palace, ...

Researchers surveyed the DNA of more than 200 cats spanning the last 9,000 years, including ancient Romanian cat remains, Egyptian cat mummies, and modern African wildcat specimens.