The Maya Early Classic period saw a rise in monumental architecture and hieroglyphic narratives as new cities rose to ...

Athens and Beijing are seeking to strengthen cultural ties as 'Journey to Ancient Greece' opens at one of China's most important archaeological museums. 'Journey to Ancient Greece' explores the ...

The remarkable Roman Egypt-era work represents some the earliest realistic portrait paintings still in existence today.

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

A Greek period Aramaic inscription found in eastern Turkey reveals the role of local elites in the ancient Kingdom of Sophene ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date ...

While the tombs and the shrine were found within the modern city's boundaries, they would have been situated outside the ...

For decades, researchers thought that an October 1843 earthquake on the small Greek island of Chalke caused a powerful ...

Arms technology is one of the driving forces behind warfare. While there was a period where most of humanity was ...

In his speech to this year’s World Economic Forum at Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney mourned the demise of ...

In a major cultural boost for Rhodes, the Ministry of Culture is advancing restoration works at the "Pervola" archaeological ...

The expansion of one of the Mediterranean’s strongest powers wasn’t only driven by conquest, but also infrastructure. By borrowing techniques from the Greeks and the Etruscans, Romans engineered ...