While Odysseus and Achilles fought for the same cause, they embody two different approaches to ancient Greek heroism.

At first glance, it's a happy image -- hundreds of smiling faces torn from newspapers and pasted into a frame. "When I put ...

The ancient Amphipolis tomb, one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the 21st century, is due to open to visitors in 2027.

Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.

UK scientists have announced what they term a “historic breakthrough,” after the first image of the inside of a scroll ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

A new study demonstrates that certain incised stone artifacts from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic, specifically from Manot, Qafzeh, and Quneitra caves, were deliberately engraved with geometric ...

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

Police say the 17-year-old shooter killed himself. (AP Video: Kristin Hall) Family members waited and worried about their children near Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee after police said a ...

It appears to depict a someone wearing flowing garments. It is missing its head and arms. Pictured is a 2,000-year-old headless statue from ancient Greece's Hellenistic period. The trafficking of ...

A marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found abandoned in a garbage bag near the Greek city of Thessaloniki, police said Wednesday.

Accidental archaeological discoveries are relatively common in Greece, a country renowned for its ancient heritage, and often made during building construction or public works. In December ...