The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

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

Archaeologists think they may have made a breakthrough discovery of an ancient city with links to a major historical figure.

For decades, a scattering of ruins in southeastern Europe was dismissed as little more than an unremarkable military outpost, ...

The many Punic settlements in north Africa and Sicily help explain admixtures from those parts of the world. But the Greek ...

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

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

It was purportedly grown in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon where it was used for medicinal purposes in ancient Greece. It has been cultivated since at least the 16th century in England. Although it is ...

In ancient Greece, education wasn’t limited to the mind — it included the body as well. Physical fitness and scholarly pursuits went hand-in-hand, a principle reflected in the number of gymnasiums ...

researchers are collecting data from each ceramic fragment to methodically build what they call a "genetic map" of ancient China's porcelain heyday. The project has already cataloged about 10,000 ...

After a century-long wait, an excavation has finally revealed the only ancient theatre on Greece's Ionian Islands. Ancient Lefkada’s theatre was first discovered in 1901, but it took until now ...

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