In 2024, it was announced that the oldest wine ever discovered in liquid form had been found in Spain, but how did this ...

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

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

The venerable auction house is unloading one-of-a-kind gold necklaces, rings, trinkets and more from ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt that cost far less than modern pieces from modern luxury ...

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One might think that every piece of ancient Greek statuary is on display ... installing natural gas pipelines near Athens found a Roman-era statue of Hermes buried upright near the Acropolis.

Just one alcoholic drink a day is linked to a wide range of negative health effects, according to a federal report released Tuesday. The findings, which apply to both men and women, tied a daily ...

From this story arose a peculiar practice: it was believed that by walking the 800 meters of the Passetto 77 times, covering a little more than 60 km, men could recover their lost power… perhaps ...

Amateur archaeologists discovered a gold coin in a field, leading to a full-fledged search that revealed 141 Roman-era gold coins ... to study in its entirety an ancient monetary deposit in ...

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