Uncovered in what was once a spacious banqueting hall that opened onto a garden, the frieze dates back to the 1st century BC, ...

Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into ...

A downright bacchanalian frieze has just been unearthed in Pompeii, one so large it spans three walls of a massive banquet ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a grand Greco-Roman residential complex, dubbed the “Mosaic House,” in the ancient city of Pergamon ...

The world is packed with spectacular destinations that celebrate faith in all its shapes and sizes, and many of these spots ...

The British Museum said Friday it had chosen French-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh to redesign a third of the venue's ...

From the Magazine of the Archaeological Institute of America comes the jaw-dropping chronicle of an Egyptian temple, once ...

Malta is home to some of the oldest and arguably most mysterious megalithic structures known to man, older than the Pyramids and Stonehenge.

Archaeologists recently unearthed several unique mosaics from Turkey. The discovery was made in Herakleia, an ancient Greek ...

Some 100 major temples towered ... or hypsoma in Greek, which holds that the planets’ connections with particular zodiac signs have an impact on the human condition. Ancient astrologers believed ...

The analysis, based on 3,225,839 words contained in 118,952 sentences, shows that ancient Greek writers, and their readers, were not significantly different from modern writers/readers. Their ...

The box yielded an array of sacred items, including idols of Lakshmi, Ganesh, Durga, a trident, a silver idol of Balaji, five maces, five Shaligrams, and nine ancient coins dating back to 1920 and ...