Archaeologists have discovered multiple artifacts depicting ancient Greek deities in the ancient city of Finziade in Sicily.

The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece ...

Knowing Taylor, these pieces may hint at themes of resilience, power or even a connection to myths or eras that ...

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 increased demand for metals, according to some of the earliest traces of of ...

These are the events and people that shaped the history of travel, from early pilgrimages and the Age of Discovery, to the ...

Explore the 7 Wonders of the World—ancient and modern. Learn where they are, when to visit, and how to plan your next ...

Depictions of the bee appear very early in the development of coinage in ancient Greece, which may have started in Ephesus.

Seventy-six years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Greece remembers the victims of the Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust, ...

They lived in mainland Greece and the Greek islands ... like the Persian Empire. Only a very powerful ruler could control all Greece. One man did in the 300s BC. He was Alexander the Great ...

In the 18th Century BC ... About 300 years later, the Emperor Constantine, after converting to Christianity, abolished crucifixion and other cruel death penalties in the Roman Empire.

Growing up, many of us hear about historical events that sound real, so we take them as fact. Yet, in … Continue reading ...

The concept of a 24-hour day seems to be rooted in the Egyptian New Kingdom (1,550 to 1,070 BC), although hours were of different lengths. The Greek astronomer Hipparchus ... decreed a seven-day week ...