Popular culture has mythologised The Spartans as militaristic warriors who enjoyed nothing more than battling to the death. But how much of what we think we know is actually true? And what can modern ...

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Archaeologists have made a stunning discovery in that aligns with a famous Bible verse. The 1,300-year-old artifact was ...

On the borderlands of early civilizations, people who considered one another alien met in moments of trade, warfare or simple human curiosity.

In an ancient monastery behind huge medieval battlements in a hilltop town just south of Rome, 10 monks are striving to keep alive a 1,600-year-old spiritual tradition against increasing odds.

An archaeological excavation campaign carried out at the Topraktepe site, corresponding to the ancient city of Irenopolis, has yielded a discovery of extraordinary scientific significance: five ...

Take a virtual tour of the Acropolis of Athens, one of the most important archaeological sites in the world. Explore the ...

And now, a scientist has found an almost complete skeleton of one that used to live right here in the UK. The newly ...

A new lighting system was unveiled at the Acropolis on Wednesday that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said would serve to illuminate the democratic principles of ancient Greece as well as the ...

A NEAR-complete skeleton found on the Jurassic Coast in west Dorset has finally been identified as a new and rare species of ...

At the royal gymnasium of Mieza, the site where Aristotle once tutored a teenage Alexander the Great, a new phase of ...