Greek authorities have issued a warning to visitors to one of its most famous islands due to a surge in volcanic activity.

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

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

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 ...

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...

Alexander the Great is one of the most famous generals of the ancient world. By the age of 32 he had conquered a massive empire that stretched from the Balkans to modern-day Pakistan. We know about ...

Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated ...

Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea have found the oldest known evidence of ...

Colin Renfrew played a key part in transforming archaeology into a problem-oriented, theoretically explicit and ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare ancient Roman artifact that has revealed previously unknown places lost to time. The ...