He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

Thousands of locals flee the picturesque island as experts say rolling tremors ‘not linked to volcanic activity’.

ATHENS, Greece -- Multiple earthquakes are rattling Santorini, a volcanic island in Greece, prompting authorities to dispatch rescuers with tents, a sniffer dog and drones, and to shut schools on four ...

Rome authorities this month opened a new archaeological park and museum in the shadow of the Colosseum that features an original marble map of Ancient Rome that visitors can literally walk over.

Xenophon's Anabasis follows the journey of ten thousand Greek mercenaries and their families trapped deep behind enemy lines. Their gripping escape became the stuff of legend. Interwoven within the ...

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

Apollonius is far from the only ancient scholar whose work was saved by the medieval Islamic tradition: “we generally ...

The popular Greek holiday island of Santorini is taking emergency measures in response to intense seismic activity.

the only knowledge that historians and experts had about Tenea came from Greek myth and ancient texts. “Tenea was built by the Trojans after the end of the Trojan War, according to the myth,” ...

Archaeologists have traced the earliest case of lead pollution by humans to the Aegean Sea region around 5,200 years ago. The ...