Archaeologists have uncovered 2,300-year-old treasures in an ancient Greek tomb near Mangalia, Romania, including gold ...

A Roman-era bridge was discovered in the ancient city of Elefsina, west of Athens during works for a suburban railway line.

Archaeologists identified skeletons found in an ancient tomb as the royal lineage of Alexander the Great, including his father and son, dating back 2,300 years.

A common whiff in the Roman city would have come from the animals and the waste they created. Roman bakeries frequently used ...

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The mystery of Greek fire continues to baffle historians millennia after its creation. Not only did the 7th-century weapon ...

In this guest article, historian and content creator Mina Moriarty debunks some of the wildest sex tales stretching back thousands of years ...

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This year, additions range from a delicate Roman cameo and a Gabonese reliquary figure to artworks by Russian painter Wassily ...

The curious thing about arriving in Athens is that it doesn’t really matter what time you get there; the impact is always the ...

In her fascinating history of old age, Winter Dreams, Barbara H Rosenwein extracts lessons on ageing from Sophocles to Jenny ...

The Potlach Club on the island of Eleuthera, where movie stars lounged and Paul McCartney honeymooned, was in ruins for ...