While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Scientists have revealed the identities of the occupants of the unspoiled 4th-century BCE Royal Tombs at Vergina in northern ...

However, researchers have uncovered what they believe to be a massive subterranean gold deposit, potentially the largest of ...

I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The so-called Thucydides Trap has become a staple of foreign policy commentary over the past decade or so, regularly invoked to frame the escalating rivalry between the United ...

Archaeologists in Agrigento, Sicily just unearthed an ancient classroom where students listened to lectures more than 2,000 ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The capsizing of a boat carrying migrants from the Turkish coast to a nearby Greek island has left at least four people dead, including two children, Greece’s coast guard ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

An aerial photograph taken by a drone shows the port of Naousa, after a powerful storm which has triggered widespread flooding on the Aegean Sea island of Paros, Greece, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP ...

The capital Plaka is a quintessential picture of Greece, where narrow cobblestone alleys run between whitewashed houses with balconies draped in flowers. The castle-fort in its Old Town also ...

Field work takes place near the site where the tomb chamber, dating to about 3,600 years ago, of an unknown ancient Egyptian king was discovered during excavations by Penn Museum and Egyptian ...

Dawn broke to reveal its source: a long, narrow ridge of jagged ... He and other locals blame the disappearance of the ancient rhythms on global climate change. “In old times, an open sea ...