Who was Pope Leo XIII, the man whose name the newly-elected Pope chose? He wasn't what people thought he would be.

Since the late 1980s, archaeologists have been working at the site of the ancient city of Zeugma in eastern Turkey -- founded ...

Historians have long believed that ancient humans fought animals in arena battles, but no definitive evidence has been found ...

The Bronze Age in ancient Greece was a pivotal era that laid the foundation for the rich tapestry of Hellenic civilization.

OMI-HACHIMAN, Shiga — A model of an ancient dog at a museum in Omi-Hachiman, Shiga Prefecture, is gaining popularity thanks to social media posts showing the dog model “walking” in and out of the ...

ATHENS, Greece — Authorities in Greece have arrested six people on the island of Crete in connection with an alleged antiquities smuggling ring that was attempting to sell dozens of ancient ...

But the ancient Greeks beat all of these individuals to the punch by more than 2,000 years. As Adrienne Mayor, a classicist at Stanford University, argues in her 2018 book Gods and Robots ...

Turkey has expressed strong objections to Greece’s recently released Maritime Spatial Planning Map, reigniting tensions over maritime boundaries in the Aegean Sea. Turkish analysts, as reported by ...

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With the approved and published map, Greece is essentially, for the first time, documenting its claims over its continental shelf/EEZ in accordance with the Law of the Sea. This constitutes the ...

Turkey had previously threatened to draw up its own maritime spatial plan in response to the European Commission’s publication of a working map regarding Greece‘s maritime spatial planning.