The religions of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans, often simply called “classical religion,” are often viewed as ...

Greek lawmakers on Wednesday elected a former parliament speaker and leading advocate for the return of the disputed Parthenon sculptures from the British Museum as the country’s new president.

The Yuezhi tribes of Central Asia, who had pushed the Shakas into the Indian subcontinent, were the last to make their way ...

Art from ancient Thrace is often flashy and brusque, as befits a warrior tribe. The archaic society was known for the prowess ...

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

Archaeologists in Licata, Sicily were recently exploring the remains of the ancient Greek colony Finziade when they came ...

While Odysseus and Achilles fought for the same cause, they embody two different approaches to ancient Greek heroism.

Our results indicated that there are ancient paternal horse lines preserved in southwestern China, which sheds new light on the domestication and immigration of horses, and suggest that the priorities ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...

The coordinating Ben-Amun bracelet mimics those minted by the silversmiths of the ancient Greek city of Syracuse ... warfare and handicraft — or to the winged horse synonymous with freedom ...

A sculpture ... Greek god Apollo during excavations in Philippi, in northwest Greece. In August, construction workers installing underground water pipelines in a town north of Athens uncovered an ...