The forgotten statue of Nero at the Isthmus of Corinth is a relic of the time the Roman emperor granted freedom to a part of ancient Greece.

An overview of Ancient Greek art, including painting, sculpture and architecture, and a look at how it changed over the years ...

A marble relief depicting a prancing horse believed to have been part of the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Agrigento, Italy, has ...

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece.

They say that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Some treasures are more surprising—and more valuable—than others, ...

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they ...

Days before Valentine's Day in 1979, a two century old bust of the Greek God Hermes was stolen in broad daylight out of the ...

From mythical guardians to symbols of transformation and terror, the snake has slithered its way into the annals of art ...

His championing of radiocarbon dating and other new scientific approaches demonstrated the untenability of the conventional ...

Until now, scholars believed that residential activity in Philippi ceased after the 6th century AD. However, new ...

A sensational new papyrus from Israel documents fraud and sedition on the eve of a major Jewish revolt against Rome in the ...

It was the year 160 AD when Appius Annius Atilius Bradua filed a complaint before the Roman Senate regarding the murder of ...