Apollonius is far from the only ancient scholar whose work was saved by the medieval Islamic tradition: “we generally ...

New archaeological museum contains original marble map from Ancient Rome - Visitors can walk over the map in the museum in ...

Researchers analyzed thousands of ancient artifacts to track native American population changes in North America before ...

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere, conquering land across three continents and ruling over states from Egypt to modern-day India — over 2,000 years ...

The expansion of the Roman empire to Greece 2,100 years ago coincided with a rise in lead pollution as a by-product of an ...

Constant expansion has introduced a sense of modernism to this ancient city ... For more details about security concerns in Greece, visit the U.S. State Department's website.

Sitting between Asia, Africa and Europe, Crete is located around 200 miles south of mainland Greece. With an area ... restaurants and even the ruins of an ancient castle. Paleochora is also ...

Credit: Ministry of Culture Greece’s Ministry of Culture is proceeding with the restoration and maintenance of the acropolis of Pelinna, an ancient Greek city-state of Thessaly. Pelinna, located east ...

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 ...