Greece celebrated the return of three Parthenon sculpture fragments from the Vatican Museums, intensifying its 40-year ...

The Department of Antiquities of the State of Libya and the Cleveland Museum of Art have agreed to a transfer of a statue ...

The ecumenical "donation" by the Vatican furthers a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of ...

Ancient Greeks developed sophisticated units of measurement ranging from measuring length, distance, volume, and weight of ...

An Oxford-based institute has unveiled an ambitious proposal to carve massive replicas of the Parthenon Marbles into Mount ...

Boris Berezovsky, the Russian oligarch, was found hanged in his Sunningdale home in March 2013. Born to Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Berezovsky converted to Russian Orthodoxy in 1994. His leap of ...

Have you ever wondered who is behind geometry's most fundamental truths? You guessed it: it is Euclid of Greece.

The Last Farewell by Hany Rashed. The exhibition runs until 20 April. Check our Art Alert here. Mashrabia gallery, 8 Champollion street, Downtown, Cairo Soma, 14 Mohamed El-Maraashli St., ...

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about ...

They were founded before 1900, endured two World Wars, two bankruptcies, the bailout-era crisis, and remained standing. Among ...

Famous Christian artists Chris Tomlin and Ben Fielding have revived a third century hymn discovered on ancient Egyptian ...

The new settlement has been found at Kom el-Nugus in northern Egypt, about 27 miles (43 km) west of Alexandria.