Discover Ancient Athens and explore its most important historical sites. Visit the Acropolis, the Parthenon, the Ancient Agora, and other landmarks that reflect the cultural and architectural legacy ...

The ancient Greek amphora was the main transport container across the Mediterranean and Black Sea for over two millennia (c. 1500 BC–500 AD).

Researchers think they have found a depiction of Noah’s Ark on the 3,000-year-old Babylonian Map of the World. Also known as the Imago Mundi, the clay tablet has baffled archaeologists for over a ...

Smyrna was one of the most illustrious ancient and Hellenistic-era Greek cities, one of the main centers of Greek culture in ...

In northern Iraq, receding water levels in the Mosul Dam reservoir have revealed approximately 40 ancient tombs dating back over 2,300 years to the Hellenistic-Seleucid period. The discovery, made by ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

More than 300 million years ago, Illinois was a very different place. Instead of cornfields and prairies, the land lay in the tropics, teeming with swamps, rivers and shallow seas. Today, that ancient ...

Discover the 5 smallest seas in the world, their locations, sizes, and interesting facts. Learn key historical significance ...

Lina Mendoni focused on the importance that Greece and the Ministry of Culture attach to the final reunification of the ...

While tracing its exact origins may be difficult, wrestling is widely recognized as the oldest sport in the world, having ...

The heirs of their original owner (Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, from a prominent Jewish family) claimed the paintings were ...

Climate Change Made Deadly Wildfires in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus More Fierce, Study Finds ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Climate change that has driven scorching temperatures and dwindling rainfall made ...