Here’s the background — Between 480 BCE and 409 BCE, the Greek city of Himera (located on the island of Sicily) experienced two great battles by invading Carthaginian armies.

Ancient tooth debunks a 2,500-year-old claim about Greek soldiers — A team of anthropologists analyzed the remains of Greek soldiers and discovered that history books may have fibbed about who ...

Throughout history, the monumental constructions of the ancient world have gripped imaginations as much for their feats of ...

The Spartan army clash with the Thebans and general Epaminondas at the Leuctra battlefield signified the end of Sparta's ...

Historian Roel Konijnendijk reviews examples of ancient battles in "Gladiator II," "The Lord of the Rings," and "House of the Dragon." ...

Tom Harris, Education Officer, Hellenic Museum: This is Alexander the Great. In 336 BCE, at the age of 20, he began a campaign leading the Greek and Macedonian armies to conquer the Persian Empire.

Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged mainland to bustling Athens, we trace the rise of Greek culture.

Archaeologists have unearthed a "spectacular" ancient temple housing hundreds of statues dedicated to the Greek God Apollo. The site, known as the Sanctuary of Apollo, is located in a remote ...

Archaeologists recently excavated an ancient workshop on Paros, Greece, revealing unfinished sculptures and intriguing artifacts from the Classical period.

Archaeologists recently made numerous "spectacular" discoveries at a long-forgotten temple to an Ancient Greek god, according to local officials. The Department of Antiquities in Cyprus shared a ...

Ancient sculptures reveal their true colors 07:00. The Greek and Roman Galleries at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are a wonder of white marble, an astonishing acre of it – world ...