The ancient Greeks founded Naples in the first millennium BCE. What legends exist about its origin, and what does archaeology reveal?

The summer solstice occurs each year on June 21. It was celebrated by ancient cultures across the world, including the ...

To tourists, it’s the ancient theater at the foot of the Acropolis. Artists revere it for the majestic stage where legends ...

KS2 History - Ancient Greece: The Trojan War. The main events of the war at Troy (as related in 'The Iliad' by Homer) are told by a Greek soldier remembering the battle. There are 7 video episodes ...

Greece is finding international allies in its ongoing fight to win back the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum in ...

KS2 History: Ancient Egypt. Rames - The Engineer. This video follows the story of Ramy, a 12 year old boy from the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, working on construction of the pyramids. BBC Teach.

A brand new God of War game set in ancient Greece has leaked, but it will be a lot different from what you might be expecting. The God of War series is one of PlayStation’s most valued ...

Explore Greece’s ancient olive groves in Crete Nearly half of all Greek olive oil is produced on Crete, making the nation’s largest island a must-visit for those tracing the delicacy’s ...

Egypt and Greece clash over St. Catherine's – home to Moses's Well, world's oldest library Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi assured Greece that the monastery's sanctity will be preserved.

Somewhere around 3600 B.C. the ancient temples of Ġgantija were built on Gozo Island in Malta, among the oldest Neolithic structures in the world.

A new discovery of a Roman army marching camp changes what we know about the frontier boundaries of the empire beyond the Rhine River. The camp was located within the forested Veluwe in the ...

Few figures in ancient mythology remain as legendary to this day as Odysseus, the fabled Greek king of Ithaca who devised the ...