A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

It turns out the ancient Romans were no different, and a new map has outlined where the wealthy ... Part of what made vacations feasible in the Roman Empire was that it was relatively safe to ...

Unlike their contemporaries in ancient Greece and Rome ... the Bering Strait into North America (as shown in this 1775 map). At its height at the end of the 19th century, the Russian Empire covered ...

The ancient statue, after being examined in a police crime lab in northern Greece ... Map of the Hellenistic world just over four decades after Alexander the Great’s death. The ancient Greek rulers of ...

A group of researchers from the National Technical University of Athens has conducted an ambitious geophysical study to ...

The Alexander Mosaic, housed in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN), is one of the most significant works of ...

Eleven works from the Vatican Apostolic Library are featured in the second Islamic Arts Biennale, held from January 25 to May ...

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 ...

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece ...

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, ...

Nostalgia has become a defining trait for Millennials and Gen Z-ers. However, this concept has roots beyond the present to ancient Greece.

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 ...