With artefacts on loan from the British Museum, this modest show reminds us of the astonishing heritage of a country now ...

Ancient Greeks saw Olympus as a divine realm of Zeus and the gods, not a mountain. Its link to Mount Olympus emerged in later traditions.

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare Roman-era boundary stone at the ancient site of Abel Beth Maacah, in northern Israel, ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

Ancient lead pollution in the Aegean Sea may have started 5,200 years ago — 1,200 years earlier than previously thought. Researchers analyzed sediment cores from land and sea, linking lead levels to ...

Lead pollution in the Aegean Sea region may have begun around 5,200 years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

The past few years have seen record-breaking tourism to Greece, a red hot travel destination that is about to get even hotter ...

“Forgery and tax fraud carried severe penalties under Roman law, including hard labor or even capital punishment,” Dolganov ...

Archaeologists have discovered multiple artifacts depicting ancient Greek deities in the ancient city of Finziade in Sicily.

The artifact emerged from the ruins of an ancient Roman building-turned-workshop in Sicily from the second or first century ...

How a 1,720-year-old Roman boundary stone unearthed in Galilee reveals new insights into ancient land ownership, taxation, ...

The clay figurine is a remarkable example of ancient Greek craftsmanship, offering a glimpse into everyday life and labor ...