DNA analysis, and forensic sculpture helped experts recreate people who lived near the ancient Roman frontier city of ...

The artworks, also known as the Parthenon marbles, once decorated the renowned ancient temple in Athens, Greece. They have ...

The film draws on Virgil, Aeschylus and lost Greek epics as director turns the warrior’s journey home into a story of guilt, ...

Before modern weapons of mass destruction, there was Greek fire (ignis graecus). This was the term medieval Crusaders applied ...

Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” hits theaters this month, but these believers have never stopped worshiping gods like Zeus ...

The same force that paved the way for the Greek Golden Age sowed the seeds of its political collapse: individualism.

San Francisco’s Legion of Honor hosts a survey dedicated to the ancient society, ranging from detailed works in gold to ...

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The Odyssey was far more than entertainment to ancient Greeks. Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a cult that revered ...

Venice has struck visitors for centuries as otherworldly, a city of memory floating in a lagoon — but also decadent, feverish ...

The Italian sculptor who designed the FIFA World Cup trophy wanted to capture three sporting emotions in a single spiraling form: the athlete’s ...

After witnessing mass looting in Baghdad in 2003, Matthew Bogdanos now recovers illegally trafficked artefacts ...