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

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

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 ...

linking the development of ancient metal smelting practices to long-term environmental change Ella Jeffries The discovery might illuminate the link between the blue pigment's ancient Egyptian ...

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 ...

The Greek Police also said that the ancient statue will be handed over to the Forensic Investigations Sub-Directorate of Northern Greece for laboratory examination. It will then be transferred to ...

This stunning marble depiction of the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare ... the collector had “[bought] such a quantity of pictures, marbles, etc. as will astonish the West Riding ...