While the central burial mound of Emperor Qin Shi Huang remains sealed, the surrounding discoveries continue to redefine what ...

Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...

Baby names inspired by Greek history and mythology are gaining popularity in the US. From Athena to Zeus, there is a name for ...

Some of the key historians who wrote about the lives of ancient Greek women were Plutarch ... ropes and anchors of Persian ships during the Persian War in 480 BCE. A statue Hydna and Scyllis was ...

An ancient Greek statue of a woman seemingly using a laptop has sparked time travel theories online. "Grave Naiskos of an Enthroned Woman with an Attendant" is a 37-inch marble statue created ...

Their enemies portrayed them as barbarians, but their artifacts tell a different story. Between their weapons, jewelry, and ...

This Greek cup, dating from around 510 B.C., depicts an Amazon warrior on a horse. Scholars suggest wording on the vase names the woman Worthy of Armor in ancient Circassian.

Modern historians attribute the trend towards shorter hairstyles in Ancient Greece to the rising popularity of sports, as athletes had to have their ears free and their hair fixed in place, possibly ...

Apollo, the Greek god of archery and son of Zeus, was a prominent Olympian deity in ancient Greek and Roman mythology. The sanctuary, described as a “richly furnished rural sanctuary,” once housed ...