Ancient Greece's Special Forces, from the Sacred Band of Thebes to the Hetairoi of Alexander the Great's army, became legendary in history.

In recent decades archaeologists in Shaanxi, China, have found artefacts evidencing new civilizations, many are on show at ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

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

The lecture hall was discovered during excavations at Agrigento, the site of the largest ancient Greek settlement in Sicily. Photo by Thomas Lappi and Monika Trümper, FU Berlin, Institute of ...

The ubiquity in which women were involved in the Urartu’s wars has led the study’s researchers to hypothesize that the women warriors of the kingdom may have inspired the Amazons depicted in ancient ...

The colour pallette is inspired by materials of an ancient Greek ruin. Livissianis was also wary of controlling the flow of the space. “[There] were probably multiple ways that you could enter ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – An ancient Greco ... it depicts an unknown Greek philosopher. The museum bought it in 1986 for $1.85 million from Edward H. Merrin Inc., a New York art gallery.

The researchers have also estimated that construction on the theater began around the 4th century B.C.E., when ancient Lefkada was experiencing economic prosperity. “Although damaged by time ...

Armed with spear and shield, Hoplites weren’t professional soldiers - they were citizens ready to defend their homeland at a moment’s notice. Here is every country working on trade deals with ...

Commissioned by the Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative (PCAI), the installation transforms ... “The Garden of Pythia is a fictional landscape — part ancient ancient Greek mountainside, part digital ...