"We all understand that the Sculptures belong here and must return to Greece. And we should do this so that we can be proud of something." ...

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

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

Widen the aperture a bit, and we can envision Earth entering a fire age comparable to the ice ages of the Pleistocene, ...

The artifact was found in Neoi Epivates, a suburb of Thessaloniki, Greece. Upon its discovery, the man took the statue to his ...

After spending centuries on a British aristocrat's estate in North Yorkshire, the marble masterpiece will be unveiled in ...

Leah L. Jones is lead photographer at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. On a journey to six cities across the country over the course of seven years ...

That’s where human volunteers come in. By transcribing digital pages, volunteers make it easier for scholars, genealogists and curious history buffs to find and read historical documents.

The complex also included a large warehouse and winepress Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient complex of ruined Byzantine-era buildings in Israel.

Ahmad Hasaballah / Getty Images Ancient Egypt was primarily ruled ... most successful” woman to rule Egypt as pharaoh, as Smithsonian magazine’s Elizabeth B. Wilson wrote in 2006.

“It adds a whole new dimension to the natural history of the island.” He tells CBC News that the meteorite came from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and it would have been ...