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 ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

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

A Copper Age burial in Spain holds the largest collection of beads ever found ― enough to require a tonne of shellfish as raw ...

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

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

New research has uncovered the earliest traces of lead contamination caused by human activities, linking the development of ...

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

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.