In the 4th century BC, the Greek engineer Aeneas of Stymphalus devised a groundbreaking communication system known as the ...

Women of ancient Athens used clothing pins as weapons, prompting a shift in Ancient Greek fashion and societal control.

Bronze armor is somewhat rare, as organic materials degrade or corrode, and metals were often melted down for reuse by ancient people. Because of the lack of finds, each discovery of this type is ...

The ancient Greek society was a complex mix of ingenuity, brutality, eccentricities and practices that you may define as cultural rites that often fall outside of contemporary expectations. Of the ...

Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...

Quarantine is a word that has become all too familiar in recent years, but its origins are centuries old. Stemming from the ...

The engraved marble fragment likely came from an archaic temple called the Hekatompedon, making it around 2,600 years old ...

The Jockey of Artemision is a magnificent surviving statue from Ancient Greece and a rare example of a racehorse in Greek ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the ...