The styles of ancient Greek pottery and the strange effigies of the Olympic god Hermes which were used in ways few moderns ...

Perched on a high rock near Corinth are the remains of the Temple of Aphrodite, which once housed a thousand prostitutes.

The Egyptological Collections at the University of Pisa preserve a collection that is fundamental to understanding the economy of ancient Egypt in Roman times: these are the ostraka of oxyrhynchus, ...

The Greeks pretty much invented the theatre. Thousands of people packed the hillside arena of ancient Athens to watch plays by famous writers like Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. The Greeks ...

An exhibition featuring ancient Greek artifacts opened Monday at the Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan ...

The Greek key design, also known as the meander, was used prolifically by the Ancient Greeks to adorn pottery, tiles, ...

AMMAN - Beit Ras, located near Irbid, became of interest for the Polish team representing the Polish Centre of Mediterranean ...

The author is a professor of archaeology at the University of Toronto. Athens of ancient Greece, the birthplace of democracy, had an interesting system called ostrakismos, or ostracism. It was a ...

The "Dragon Houses" of Euboea, mysterious megalithic structures dating to ancient Greece's Preclassical period, continue to baffle researchers. Located on high altitudes, these mortar-free buildings ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a significant Hellenistic Byzantine-era site in Israel. The site reveals the ruins of several ...