Pump Park Vintage Photography/Alamy The Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland’s Bernese Alps is the mightiest mass of ice in Europe. Covering a staggering 66 square miles (171sq km) it has always attracted ...

Dion, the sacred site of ancient Macedonia, lies at the foot of Mount Olympus, featuring lush vegetation, springs and a ...

The total research base is around 4,000 inscribed or stamped artifacts of pottery, sandstone, and copper, consisting of ...

To learn the history of a new destination, travelers should look no further than its most famous buildings ... the Acropolis of Athens is an ancient Greek citadel. Its most iconic structure ...

Accidental archaeological discoveries are relatively common in Greece, a country renowned for its ancient heritage, and often made during building construction or public works. In December ...

Now let’s segue to ancient Greek pottery. It’s an art form that, in addition to depicting mythology ... Anyone living in or visiting Paris should seek out the Louvre museum’s famous “Borghese Vase.” ...

In our column “What I Can’t Live Without,” we’ve interviewed hundreds of famous people about their favorite products — and here, we’re going deep into their favorite fragrances.

The ancient universities of India were intellectual ... This historical era saw institutions in India topping the list and becoming famous throughout the world as having advanced curricula ...

The circular structure in trench XXIV at Vasagård West and the objects found in the postholes: engraved stones (1, 2 & 5), pottery (3 & 4) and decorated burnt daub (6 & 7 ... These practices persisted ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

Amid the ashes of a funeral pyre, encased in burnt mud, was a papyrus scroll—the first to be found in mainland Greece. Dating of the document and the discovery its literary nature subsequently ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd ... "You may have heard of King Hammurabi, who erected the famous law code. So, this is about that same ...