A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

History’s most impressive hoard of ancient Greek ... is perhaps Greece’s most remote scrap of land, just over six miles long and two miles wide, a dot on the map between the east and west ...

However, both Darius and his son Xerxes came unstuck in their efforts to defeat independent Greece and thereafter ... During the 5th and 6th centuries BC, the ancient Olmec civilization was ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world. The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists, architects and politicians.

What's cooler than maps? Bizarre ancient maps. Oxford University Press recently published "The Oxford Map Companion: One Hundred Sources in World History," edited by UC Irvine historian Patricia Seed.

View our world through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to ...

Find out what events were at the ancient Olympics. What was it like to live in an ancient Greek family? What was everyday life like in ancient Greece? Find out about family life, entertainment ...