There are few maps in the world as detailed or as old as the Madaba Mosaic Map. Created in the 6th century, it shows dozens of places in the Holy Land, some of which had never been found. Until now.

The Byzantine Christian settlement has been discovered in Jordan, marked on the Madaba Mosaic Map, the oldest surviving ...

One night in 373 BCE, the earth beneath the Greek city of Helike groaned and cracked. As homes crumbled and temples collapsed ...

The archaeological site of the ancient Byzantine-era Christian settlement of Tharais - lost for centuries - has been found in ...

A stunning archaeological breakthrough in the Middle East has brought one of the Holy Land's forgotten cities back into the spotlight. Experts believe they have uncovered the ancient Byzantine-era ...

Divers have spent decades exploring Greece's ancient Antikythera wreck. The latest expedition found relics and retrieved ...

Are there really ancient linguistic connections between Ancient Greek and Polynesian languages? What do these reveal about ...

The seasonal symbolism theory of the German scholar R. Shröder (1899) saw Jason as the “spring hero” who retrieved the Golden Fleece. For Shröder, Jason carrying Hera across the river symbolized the ...

The thousands of fragments once formed an enormous fresco that decorated around 20 walls in a building in central London.

In fact, the length of the temple reaches 100 feet in the ancient Greek measurement system, which is roughly comparable to the modern imperial foot used in the U.S. today.

A former Ullapool High School pupil has shared an insight into their time participating in an archaeological field school on ...