The statue of Antinous was discovered by a team of French archaeologists who in 1891 excavated the ancient site of Delphi.

In the late 18th and early 19th century, Westerners were involved in extensive looting of Greek antiquities as the nation was ...

Ancient city The ruins of Megiddo are now in a national park about 18 miles (30 kilometers) southeast of Haifa. Megiddo was a strategically important city at a crossroads on trade and military ...

Per Omnia, the building would have fit several hundred people. Many ancient Greek cities had a bouleuterion, which hosted civic ceremonies and sometimes cultural performances. Teos’ bouleuterion ...

Greece is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the War Museum’s founding with a special commemorative coin, paying tribute to all those who fought for the nation’s freedom. The War Museum was ...

coins, and pottery dating from between the 4th century B.C.E. and the late Roman era. At that time, the Greek ministry hailed the find as “proof of the existence of the ancient city.” ...

Ancient Greece gave us many things, from mythology to democracy by way of the Olympics, but if I recall my (very) old primary-school project correctly, one thing Archimedes and pals never got ...

Prior work suggested that during the mid-Middle Paleolithic (80,000 to 130,000 years ago), the southern Levant was home to at least three different groups of Homo: modern humans, Neanderthals and ...

Bonisoli explained that it’s unusual to find ancient coins from this era in a jar like the ones recently discovered. Another unknown is how much the coins might be worth, although Italian media have ...

Over 30,000 bronze coins, possibly from a 4th Century shipwreck ... waters and alerted local authorities. Heavy rain on the Greek island of Paros saw cars and debris swept through the streets.

His newly expanded introduction also includes a three-page image gallery of denominations for ancient coins. It shows 55 Greek, Roman, and Byzantine coins in gold, silver, bronze, and copper, ranging ...