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New research shows how trade rooted in local resource differences and the conflicts it sparked, made ancient Greek ...
In late September 2021, a Reddit user posted a virtual recreation of what was described as the ruins of a street in Ephesus, a city in ancient Greece. (What's left of Ephesus is in modern-day Turkey.) ...
An ancient Greek city has been discovered sunken beneath the Aegean Sea. The settlement dates back around 4,500 years (2,500 BC) and was the size of around 10 football fields, covering an area of ...
The agoras of the ancient Greek city-states were open areas for people to assemble for everything from political gatherings to public debates. Ancient Agora is the most popular of its kind ...
An entire ancient ... a long-abandoned Greek necropolis and lakeside town from the time of Alexander the Great. What emerged when archaeologists dug deeper was a whole other city, one that was ...
The ancient Greeks sometimes placed heavy objects ... Researchers found two examples of revenant graves in the Greek city-state of Kamarina on southeastern Sicily. They also found evidence ...
A marble head of Artemis, probably of Athenian manufacture, and statues inside a museum at the site of Halaesa, an ancient Greek and Roman city being excavated on the ... He pointed to sections of ...
Divers pulled the first fragments of what became known as the Antikythera mechanism from a shipwreck in 1901. The shipwreck was discovered off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera, and hence ...
Archaeologists found an ancient Greek tomb with gold artifacts that was looted and reused as ritual site in Roman times, photos show. Photo from Greece’s Ministry of Culture and Sports Walking ...
The Battle of Salamis happened during the earlier half of the Greco-Persian Wars, a string of conflicts between ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid, or Persian, Empire that historians say ...
An ancient Greek city which was lost underwater for 1,000 years has miraculously reappeared with stunning statues. Among the early discoveries was Hapy, a fertility god who was lord of the river ...
While excavating a large room in the ruins of an ancient Greek city, archaeologists stumbled upon a massive ceramic jar known as a pithos that was used to hold food. But when they took off the jar ...