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

The extraordinary images that emerged from ash show Dionysian followers dancing and hunting, which are akin to frescoes of the nearby Villa of the Mysteries that were found 100 years ago.

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

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

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 ...

The religions of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans, often simply called “classical religion,” are often viewed as indistinguishable. This is partly because the Greeks and Romans were different ...

Rediscovered some 200 years ago, the ancient Egyptian temple of Esna has held 2,000-year-old secrets in its walls that are just now seeing the light of day. Thanks to an ambitious restoration project ...

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 ...