Only one Englishman who had a great Olympic career ever stood for the IOC presidency before Sebastian Coe, and Coe will try ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideological purposes. But in reality, ancient works of art were colorful, and ...

Archeologists claim to have found the resting place of one of only a handful of the Abydos Dynasty's kings, after around ...

After surrendering scores of art works thought looted, the museum is looking to its new head of provenance research to police its acquisitions and review its collection.

After having declared Prakrits to be classical, it is redundant to accord the status to the modern-day new Indic languages.

Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Cleopatra. Rulers of Greek, Roman and Egyptian empires. The three most iconic, powerful and brilliant leaders in ancient history. Leaders whose lives and ...

Many museums around the world are filled with marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome. Some viewers recognize that these works of art were not originally displayed in their glistening white form, ...

Did the legendary kings of Troy really exist? Some researchers argue that they appear in Hittite letters, but is this really ...

On March 17, 1821, the Mani Peninsula stood at the forefront of the Greek Revolution as the people of Areopoli raised the ...

March 25 is a dual celebration for Greece, marking both the start of the 1821 Revolution against Ottoman rule and the religious feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. This significant day, ...

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in Europe.

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources, ...