A new study reveals that the Carthaginians, famed for their Mediterranean empire and wars with Rome, had little genetic ...

What type of ancient medieval torture device is this?” Ross Blankenship asked. I explained it was Grandma Potempa’s pressure ...

In Ancient Greece, professional curse writers were employed to hex the living and the dead from beyond the grave.

An international team of scientists has unveiled new findings about the enigmatic Tomb I, known as the Tomb of Persephone, located in the Great Tumulus of Vergina, Greece. This monument, considered ...

Authorities on the Greek island of Crete have arrested six people allegedly involved in an antiquities smuggling operation.

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered ancient Mayan pottery in a cave system a little more than 10 miles away from downtown Playa de Carmen.

Celts drank Greek wine according to a recent study of ceramic containers which have been excavated from a hillfort site in Burgundy.

If Athens is a short stop on your Greece itinerary, don’t worry. This two-day planner contains everything you need to see and ...

I asked, “what should we do, when the leaders take us to ruin?” He said, “Wait.”  — Charles Eisenstein Democracy: yearning to ...