Scientists believe that a cave east of Athens was a hideout for lions which roamed the ancient Greek countryside thousands of ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

The lecture hall of an "impressive high school" from an ancient Greek settlement was recently uncovered in Italy – with the discovery highlighting the similarities between ancient and modern ...

The researchers have also estimated that construction on the theater began around the 4th century B.C.E., when ancient Lefkada was experiencing economic prosperity. “Although damaged by time ...

All are thought to date from various periods of ancient Greek history and will be assessed by a state archaeological service. Police also confiscated metal detectors and scanning equipment ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. In Greek and Roman ...

A haunting new immersive experience is about to take over a historic venue in Toronto, transforming the space into Ancient Greece for a daring retelling of a story we all know. The name Medusa ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, the study adds to evidence that statues were more than ...

Following a decade of excavation efforts, archaeologists unearthed the remains of an ancient Greek amphitheater—the first of its kind to be discovered on the Ionian Islands. The ancient Greek ...

Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann / Stiftung Archäologie The Greeks took their beauty seriously ... according to modern scholars. Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color ...

In fact, it's too big. The only known way to create black holes is through the deaths of massive stars. When big stars die, they leave behind black holes up to a few dozen times the mass of the sun.

The bones of butchered and cooked animals have been found in the most high-status graves. Some hold the skulls of wild sheep, ...