The world of archaeology and art is often filled with thrilling discoveries, but few match the sheer surprise and sere ...

Archaeologists have traced the earliest case of lead pollution by humans to the Aegean Sea region around 5,200 years ago. The findings, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, ...

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

To those who yearn for simpler times, back before “wokeness” and “the gays” ruined everything, a bygone civilization like ancient Greece might seem like an example of the perfect society. Back then, ...

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

Ancient statues have also been found in trash before in other parts of Europe. In 2023, a Roman-era statuette of Venus was ...

On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with an unusual object that he said he had found in a ...

had begun his famous 'Histories': our first record of Ancient Greek life. Undoubtedly the young Socrates absorbed many of these exciting new influences as he walked through Athens' teeming streets ...

Recorded, and probably rewritten by the historian Thucydides, it is one of the primary sources on which our understanding of ancient Athens ... many traditional Greek virtues in a radical new ...

Archaeologists in the ancient Greek city of Assos have discovered a 2,200-year-old Hellenistic mosaic and a 1,800-year-old Roman-era tomb.

ZDF Studios has picked up the global distribution rights to the six-part history series Ancient Betrayals.