Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

Once known as "the North Korea of Europe", Albania is turning to its millennia-old sites and rich cultural heritage to recast its image ... natural landscape and embracing its ancient roots.

With none of the crowds but much of the mystique of Jordan's magnificent Petra facades, Hegra in Saudi Arabia is the place ...

The site of ancient ... Greek temple of the Doric order. Its size, scale and ornaments were beyond anything previously constructed on the site. The gigantic chryselephantine (ivory and gold on a ...

New research has uncovered the earliest traces of lead contamination caused by human activities, linking the development of ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...

The discovery of ancient artifacts in surprising places is not uncommon in a country as rich in history and archaeology as Greece. Relics are often unearthed during construction projects ...

Discoveries of ancient artifacts are relatively common in Greece, often unearthed during construction projects. A headless statue believed to be 2,000 years old has been found inside a black ...

in northwest Greece. In August, construction workers installing underground water pipelines in a town north of Athens uncovered an ancient mosaic of dancing satyrs. A monumental building with lion ...