On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an archaeological site named for a mound roughly in the shape of a horseshoe, or ...

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“In the first excavation week, the volunteers found written historical documents, exceptional bronze vessels, and remains of ancient ... artifacts at the site, such as Greek papyri and coins ...

The trove includes small Hellenistic vessels, pottery fragments, gold coins ... Classical Antiquities of the Greek Ministry of Culture. It also uncovered other ancient ruins beyond the funerary ...

Archaeologists discovered a 2,200-year-old pyramid structure in the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea that featured stones weighing hundreds of pounds each. Early returns from excavations have already ...

In the 900 years between those notable moments, Ancient Greek culture shaped contemporary poetry, democracy, philosophy, art, theater, and language. Take Greek mythology, for example: those ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

This particular jug is believed to have originated in Corinth, a large city in ancient Greece. Soldiers found a second artifact at the site, identified as an oinochoe vessel, a jug with one handle ...