It exposed a Roman-era thoroughfare, ancient Greek burial sites, water and drainage systems, mosaics and inscriptions and tens of thousands of artifacts spanning centuries, also through Byzantine ...

Featuring a total of 279 artifacts rooted in ancient Greece, the exhibition The Countless Aspects of Beauty in Ancient Art opened in Beijing on Tuesday. The Greek show in China seems a perfect ...

“The classic checkerboard pattern ... ancient and traverses multiple cultures,” says architect and designer Nicholas Potts. “It shows up in Indian chessboards, Islamic mosaics, and keffiyehs ...

While the prospect of uncovering Alexander’s tomb remains distant—despite decades of well-funded expeditions—a Greek academic ... the description in the ancient sources of the sacred ...

Researchers believe they have found a tunic that once belonged to Alexander the Great among artifacts in the royal tombs in Vergina, Greece, which has led to debate in the archeological field.

The writing was etched onto clay cylinders discovered during a dig at an ancient Syrian city. What appears to be evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger ...

the Henry Moore Foundation has recently engaged in international loan exhibitions that examine the artist’s legacy and his global reception through the prisms of Ancient Greece and a fellow 20th ...

Take cues from ancient wisdom and shift your mindset to transform your winter experience from daunting to delightful. People gather at Stonehenge to celebrate the winter solstice, an ancient ...

Sep. 25, 2024 — Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back approximately 3,600 years.

ATHENS, Nov 20 (Reuters) - A general strike docked ships and disrupted rail and bus services across Greece on Wednesday, as thousands of workers marched in Athens to demand better pay and living ...

Marina Christofides, the Greek-Cypriot author of The Traitor’s Club, her memoir of growing up in Cyprus, remembers how “Turkish” coffee vanished after Turkey invaded the island in 1974.

Archaeologists have long known that the Maya Lowlands, in the southernmost region of Mexico, harbors ancient urban settings (SN: 10/25/21). When archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas, of Tulane ...