During the Hellenistic era, an obscure city in western Asia Minor (modern Turkey) became one of the leading states of the 3rd ...

The Mediterranean Sea used to be filled with pirates who terrorized not only Ancient Greece but Rome as well. Long before the ...

Trade has been, since time immemorial, one of the main driving forces behind contact between civilizations. In this context, ...

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...

Offering a distraction to nervous flyers at Skopje's airport, Dino is the North Macedonian capital's 'Zen Dog'. The four-year-old golden retriever pays frequent visits to the airport where he creates ...

The ancient Greeks used to make a wide variety of breads, as they considered it to be of great importance in their eating ...

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they may be somewhere else entirely. But one thing is certain: Archaeologists ...

A remarkable papyrus recently unearthed from the collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority offers unprecedented insights into Roman legal procedures and life in the Near East. Scholars from the ...

All hotels have been independently reviewed and selected. We will earn a commission if you book via the links below, but this never affects our rating. Rome impresses with its ancient ruins and ...

The stolen Dacian bracelets were found at the Sarmizegetusa Regia, the kingdom's ancient capital. Ing. Marius Amarie / Drents Museum A replica of the helmet even featured in The Dacians ...