There are very few remains of ancient ships, except in one unusual place: the Black Sea has a unique environment that ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.

One hundred feet below, the icy Aksu River, known in ancient ... in Greek. (Latin was barely used in Western Anatolia during Roman times, except in garrison towns and veterans’ colonies.) ...

For nearly two decades, Ubisoft has shown fans amazing historic time periods throughout the franchise, everywhere from Renaissance Rome to Ancient Egypt ... and how the 13 colonies separated ...

Archaeologists in Agrigento, Sicily just unearthed an ancient classroom where students listened to lectures more than 2,000 years ago. One of the most impressive auditoriums ever built by the ancient ...

The lecture hall of an "impressive high school" from an ancient Greek settlement was recently uncovered in Italy – with the discovery highlighting the similarities between ancient and modern ...

Southeastern Italy may be better known for its beaches and burrata, but it’s also layered with ancient Greek and Roman ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. In Greek and Roman ...

The lecture hall was discovered during excavations at Agrigento, the site of the largest ancient Greek settlement in Sicily. Photo by Thomas Lappi and Monika Trümper, FU Berlin, Institute of ...