The challenge when visiting Rome is deciding what to skip: there are so many churches, archaeological sites, piazzas and ...

One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...

From the iconic Parthenon to the mystical Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece’s ancient temples offer a breathtaking journey through mythology, architecture, and history.

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Greek building and courtyard on Failaka Island, Kuwait, offering insights into ...

Imagine a city that thrived for thousands of years, its streets alive with workshops, markets and the laughter of children, yet that is remembered for a single night of fire. That city is Troy.

Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dating back 430,000 years, at the Marathousa 1 site in ...

What’s particularly exciting about finds like this is that we just so rarely have wood preserved for that long,” the study’s lead author told NBC News.

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...

Evidence of ancient occupation around Via Pietralata was found in the 1990s, and excavations of the area of the shrine began ...

Recent excavations in the ancient Etruscan city of Vulci revealed the head of a marble statue that appears to have Greek influence. The head belongs to a kore, statues made in the images of young ...