A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

Six individuals were arrested in Crete for their involvement in an antiquities smuggling ring, with authorities seizing over ...

Archaeologists in Jordan have documented a carved inscription bearing the name of Ramesses III, an Egyptian pharaoh who ...

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

Greek police have arrested six people on the island of Crete in connection with an antiquities smuggling ring that was ...

There has been a long debate about wine-drinking in Troy, but new research shows how common the alcoholic drink was.

Reading like the lyrics to a popular song or poem from modern times, ancient Greek poems have prompted new insights into ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

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

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

A British organization wants to carve Parthenon Marbles replicas into Mount Pentelicus so Greece can become home to its own ...

Digging into the sandy soil of northern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a rusty metal object unlike anything they’d seen before. The item turned out to be a “rare” ancient chariot wheel and a first ...