The “Ancient Marvels” Facebook page is dedicated to interesting posts displaying human and natural artifacts from across ...

Today the Benaki’s treasures—a Hercules statue from the 5th century BC! Lord Byron’s desk!—are an obligatory stop on any ...

Estimating the population of Ancient Greece is a complex task due to the lack of accurate historical records and the different time periods.

In Venice, all the beauty is on the outside,” says Emanuela Brignone Cattaneo, gliding through the narrow alley that slices a ...

Volume V of the new edition of The Cambridge Ancient History encompasses the first Classic age of European civilization--the fifth century BC. This was the first and last period before the Romans in ...

A Sanskrit grammatical problem which has perplexed scholars since the 5th Century BC has been solved by a University of Cambridge PhD student. Rishi Rajpopat, 27, decoded a rule taught by Panini ...

At the end of the fifth century BC, the Peloponnesian War resulted in Athens' shattering defeat by Sparta. Taking advantage of the debacle, a commission of thirty Athenians abolished the democratic ...

At a special ceremony held at our embassy in Rome, the grandson of former Italian Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi presented ...

A significant archaeological discovery has been made on the island of "St. Cyricus" in Sozopol, Bulgaria, where a third ...

Although Homer's Iliad and Odyssey belonged to an earlier tradition of oral storytelling, they greatly influenced Greek ...

There are plenty of underrated, yet equally impressive, fortresses around the world with their own unique charm and fascinating history.

The results of a study conducted by an international team of researchers on silver and lead production in the southeastern ...