Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

A correspondence about an ancient Greek letter that was eaten by mice is certainly one of the funniest anecdotal ...

Pazuzu was one of many ancient Mesopotamian supernatural beings that blurred the line between god and monster. Historian Dr ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...

TEHRAN – The Persian translation of the book “Persians: The Age of the Great Kings” written by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones has been ...

This armor wasn't just for show. It could have seen deadly combat during the epic Trojan War.

If you visit Taormina, Sicily—and with a direct Delta flight from JFK starting on May 23, the trip just became so much easier ...

There’s nothing new about our modern obsession with playing and watching sports – they were popular in ancient Greek and ...

If you walked down a city street in ancient Greek and Roman times, it’s likely you’d come across children or even adults ...

It’s believed the king was buried inside it with his grave ... the monument is called a hierothesion, a word that in ancient Greek designates both funerary and cultic functions.

The sacred water world of the ancient Greeks The Greeks had several water gods that reigned over the oceans, seas, rivers and ...

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ...