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

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

T here are few maps in the world as detailed or as old as the Madaba Mosaic Map. Created in the 6th century, it shows dozens ...

A rare piece of Bronze Age armor discovered in South Moravia, Czech Republic, is rewriting parts of ancient military history.

Beyond their bronze rams and powerful oars, the formidable warships, the triremes, of ancient Athens harbored a secret weapon ...

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.

An archaeological excavation in Greece has revealed the remains of an ancient monumental building replete with marble lion sculptures and intriguing gold artifacts, among other finds.

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

The professor of ancient Mediterranean art and archaeology at the University of Michigan, along with graduate student researchers, unearthed a hoard of gold coins traced to the Persian Empire in ...