During our recent family trip to Greece, we had the opportunity to tour the legendary Acropolis and several lesser-known historical places in the heart of Athens. The city has many incredible ...

A new interactive map reveals the Roman road network, linking Ancient Greece with the empire and shaping trade, travel, and ...

Join us as we visit the Hellenic Museum in Melbourne to explore the fascinating everyday lives of the ancient Greeks. ABC iview Home Watch all your favourite ABC programs on ABC iview. More from ABC ...

The televisual essay is now an integral part of popularising ancient history. And what could be more persuasive (and helpful to the tourist industry) than visits to two great ancient cities – Rome ...

Greece, the wellspring of Western civilization, has a continuity of existence from ancient times to the present day. In spite of multiple depredations inflicted on the country over millennia, Greek ...

Perhaps no other ancient city captures our imagination quite like Pompeii. The storyline is familiar: a thriving city on the Bay of Naples- a mecca of high culture and a playground of the rich- ...

While most ancient Greeks dined in their own homes or as a guest in the home of a friend or associate, some men ate meals at the expense of their city. Public dining was a privilege bestowed upon ...

In June, 1818, during a visit to central Greece, a young English architect named George Ledwell Taylor went out riding with some friends in order to explore the ruins of an ancient town called ...

High-throughput sequencing technologies have revolutionized ancient DNA (aDNA) research by enabling the reconstruction of whole-genome sequences from traces of short and extremely degraded DNA ...