The past few years have seen record-breaking tourism to Greece, a red hot travel destination that is about to get even hotter ...

Greece announced a major revamp of the site of Peristeria to highlight the ancient city that flourished more than 35 ...

Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

Amid the ashes of a funeral pyre, encased in burnt mud, was a papyrus scroll—the first to be found in mainland Greece. Dating of the document and the discovery its literary nature subsequently ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome has long been referenced, from the temple-like façades ...

Here’s how it works. An ancient and enigmatic stone circle in the Middle East may not be a prehistoric astronomical observatory after all, according to a new study of satellite images.

But using ice cores and other ancient data points allows scientists to peer much deeper into the past, and establish that the climate today is likely warmer than it has been in 120,000 years.

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think. The birth of ...