Archaeologists often spend long amounts of time at a dig site, only to dig up garbage such as bottle caps and soda cans, or ...

Among the recovered items were 15 ancient oil lamps, 17 figurines or fragments, several ceramic vessels, and a marble sculpture believed to depict a child’s head. All are thought to date from various ...

Greek police arrested six suspected antiquities smugglers after a massive operation on Crete, retrieving 40 ancient artifacts ...

The official structure, stuffed with significant coins and Greek papyri, was likely later transformed into someone’s grave ...

The perennial popularity of botanical art ...

Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the ...

Ancient coins ... is illegal. The artifacts dated back to the Iron Age, circa 9th century BCE, to the Islamic period in the 7th century CE. Among the artifacts found were coins, arrowheads ...

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 ...

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 ...