Shielded from development and agriculture, many archaeological sites from ancient Greece have now become inadvertent safe ...

Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.

How was the great English playwright William Shakespeare influenced by ancient Greece, and how did he come to know about its ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

Wind farm construction in Suffolk revealed a lost Anglo-Saxon village with 62-foot longhouses. The medieval settlement was ...

Ancient Greek life consisted of celebrity scandals, lowbrow humor, and public graffiti, similar to today's world.

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient wolf remains on a small Baltic island where wolves could only have been brought by humans.

Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West's first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on ...

Known as a kore, this 2,500 year-old-statue is a fusion of ancient aesthetics and a symbol of cultural exchange between the ...