The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

The mission aims to estampage 15 newly discovered Satavahana-era inscriptions, palaeo-graphically dated between the 1st century BCE and 1st century CE. Estampage is a method used to create copies ...

A sleepy peninsula west of Athens, the Peloponnese offers uniquely Greek experiences ranging from visits to olive farms, boat ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

There are very few remains of ancient ships, except in one unusual place: the Black Sea has a unique environment that ...

A fragment from a set of verses used to consult the Greek oracles on matters of freedom and slavery, around the 1st century BCE. (Courtesy Divination, Oracles & Omens) “For many centuries ...

Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was first to use the word hysteria, from the Greek hysteron (uterus), for an ailment that ...

The 3,300-year-old monument has sat in the French capital's center for almost 200 years, but no one else noticed these ...

The inscriptions which are datable to the first century BCE to the first century CE, were done during the reign of the Satavahana prince Kumara Hakusiri, son of Naganika and Satakarni-I.

The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.

A new DNA study reveals that ancient Carthaginians had diverse ancestry and were not primarily descended from Phoenician ...

A new DNA study is changing what we thought we knew about one of the ancient world’s great civilizations—the Phoenicians and ...