Work and wages varied immensely in ancient Greece. Agriculture was the backbone of the economy but work was available in ...

Lavender, one of the most popular herbs in the world, has been highly valued and cultivated since ancient Greek times.

Few figures in ancient mythology remain as legendary to this day as Odysseus, the fabled Greek king of Ithaca who devised the ...

These mortar-fee constructions are thought to date back to the Preclassical period of Ancient Greece, the classical period ...

Scattered in pieces, the city's largest area of painted Roman plaster was found amid the rubble, dating back at least 1,800 ...

Standing in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo ...

Thousands of newly discovered fragments, which once adorned a high-status Roman building, offer an unprecedented glimpse into ...

Experts in London have spent three months piecing together the shattered remains of Roman artworks, revealing luxurious ...

“It was like assembling the world’s most difficult jigsaw puzzle,” said Han Li, the lead specialist at the Museum of London ...

Archaeologists uncover a chilling mosaic inscription in Turkey’s ancient city of Olympos: “Only those on the righteous path ...

And if you see an unexpected tourist sign for a stone circle or dolmen, we highly suggest you don’t bypass the chance to discover one of Ireland’s ancient treasures! *Originally published in 2016.

The small Greek island of Antikythera lies at the edge of the Aegean Sea between the mainland and Crete. In 1900, a Greek sponge diver claimed to have found a shipwreck some 150 feet beneath the waves ...