Archaeologists have discovered the ‘world’s oldest calendar’, dating back 12,000 years. Göbekli Tepe is a Neolithic ...

The image many have in mind of Greek sculptures—noble looking with a bit of an emptiness about the eyes—might be slightly ...

It’s amazing what can be found at the bottom of people’s gardens. The severed marble head of an unknown Roman philosopher, ...

Sifting through the tan dirt of northern Iraq, archaeologists looked at the remnants of an ancient empire’s capital city.

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

Archaeologists uncovered a relief of King Ashurbanipal with Assyrian gods in ancient Nineveh, offering new insight into ...

The tiny Greek island, only 90 minutes by ferry from Athens, has been renowned for generations as a dreamy, car-free outpost ...

There’s nowhere quite like Athens. The mix of ancient ruins and modern city life is pretty surreal, and the juxtaposition of a 2500-year-old temple with a corner restaurant serving authentic local ...

Nearly 60 works from the famed Torlonia Collection are on view in Chicago.

The ancient carvings appear on the exterior of stone structures inside the crater area known as The Granophyre Dykes, which stretches six miles long and 16 feet wide and formed after impact. The 8,000 ...

Archaeologists working in Jerusalem have uncovered a mysterious stone that has stunned experts around the world. The archaeological find, which features a rare depiction of a seven-branched menorah (a ...

Near the centre of the 5000-year-old stone circle known as Stonehenge, builders transported a six-tonne stone called the ‘altar stone’ from Wales to its current resting place on Salisbury Plain in ...