Ancient Greece, renowned for its contributions to democracy and philosophy, also holds the unfortunate distinction of ...

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.

Lead contamination lead remained fairly low and localized in ancient Greece throughout the Bronze Age, the Classical period ...

The expansion of the Roman empire to Greece 2,100 years ago coincided with a rise in lead pollution as a by-product of an ...

They say that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Some treasures are more surprising—and more valuable—than others, ...

The venerable auction house is unloading one-of-a-kind gold necklaces, rings, trinkets and more from ancient Greece, Rome and ...

A headless and armless small marble Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period turned up in the trash in Thessaloniki.

Police said experts determined the piece dates to the Hellenistic era, a period roughly between 320 and 30 B.C. that was ...

According to The Associated Press and a statement from Greek police, a man in Neoi Epivates near the city of Thessaloniki ...

After discovering the ancient artwork in a suburb of Thessaloniki, Greece, the man surrendered it to the police. Authorities are analyzing the statue and investigating why it was abandoned ...

A more than 2,000-year-old marble statue of a woman has been found discarded in a rubbish bag near Thessaloniki, Greece. A ...

A mysterious marble statue, over 2,000 years old, was recently discovered in the unlikeliest of places—abandoned in a black ...