New sites and artifacts are found all the time, revealing forgotten secrets of the past. Here are some of the latest discoveries: In the heart of Rome, a dazzling blue material dating back 2,000 years ...

Ancient lead pollution in the Aegean Sea may have started 5,200 years ago — 1,200 years earlier than previously thought.

The beads were identified as amber, something that was not common in Syria during the Iron Age and originated from the Baltic ...

A large team of archaeologists, historians and prehistory specialists affiliated with a host of institutions across Spain has ...

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

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

The Department of Archaeology at Hazara University, Manshera here on Monday uncovered ancient artifacts dating back 2800 ...

A new study challenges old theories, proposing that money was created for trade between strangers and not to collect taxes.

Archaeologists have uncovered a 4,600-year-old monumental complex on the tiny Aegean islet of Dhaskalio, shedding new light on early Greek civilization. This discovery, which includes around 60 marble ...

On these cups were carnelian, amethyst, amber, and gold beads, four gold rings ... before the construction of the palatial centers in Mycenaean Greece, including the Palace of Nestor. Ancient DNA ...

Yet, in a land whose ancient Greek forebears coined the notion of hubris as a potent ingredient of tragedy, both developments contributed to a crippling debt crisis that raised questions about ...