Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...

A trove of "ancient treasures" was recently found in a third-century shipwreck near Greece. Not only did this trove include ...

The era in which Strabo lived, the saddle between the first centuries bc and ad, was highly receptive to kolossourgiai. The ...

At a time when knowledge of the world was fragmented and based on travelers’ and merchants’ accounts, one man set out to ...

What are we learning about the past? Here are three of our most recent eye-catching archaeology stories.

New archaeological museum contains original marble map from Ancient Rome - Visitors can walk over the map in the museum in ...

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed ... day his history teacher showed pupils a map of Alexander’s ...

When Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C., 13 years after building one of the world's largest empires ... It was kind of a miracle." Topographical maps and ancient sources suggest the area where the ...

A reconstruction of the ancient pyramid-like structure and map of its location at Chupacigarro archaeological site. Photo from Caral Archaeological Zone, Executive Unit 003 of Peru's Ministry of ...

Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver coins were found in a field outside a village in the Netherlands, officials announced this week. The coins are thousands of years old, the Netherlands ...

In the best restaurants along the Bosphorus strait Roman Abramovich’s high dining is setting tongues wagging as much as it once did in London. “I love Abramovich so much,” enthuses Omer Ataysin, an ...