Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have discovered a pyramid-shaped structure and ancient artifacts in the ...

Old civilisations have long inspired jewellery designers. In Europe, the jewellery of the Middle Ages was influenced by designs from Byzantium, while styles in eastern Europe reflected jewellery that ...

A guard protecting ancient sites in northern Greece has been charged with involvement in a crime ring smuggling out artifacts and selling them abroad, police officials said on Friday. The man was also ...

The carob seed which became the modern carats shows how ancient Greeks devised ingenious ways to ensure fairness in trade.

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of ...

The idea of finding hidden treasure in a junk drawer, attic or basement has long lured people to auction houses and ...

Lead Contamination in Ancient Greece Points to Societal Change Jan. 30, 2025 — Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans ...

This extraordinary find excavated from Yorkshire soil is not just a collection of ancient objects, but signals a need for a significant revision of how we understand Iron-Age Britain. The presence ...

The Temple of Athena Polias in Priene, an ancient Greek city at the base of Mycale’s escarpment, the battleground where Greeks and Persians clashed in history. Credit: Flickr / Egisto Sani CC BY-NC-SA ...

Russian police and Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) have found a collection of ancient gold coins on the one of the antique markets in Moscow, Russian Interior Ministry reported. After ...

The structure could have served as a guard tower, a grave marker or possibly an ancient monument. "It is an enthralling historical mystery," the directors said in a press release. The excavation also ...