The latest ancient Greek archaeological find to cause a stir is a Hellenistic marble workshop, discovered during a dig on Paros, part of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea. You might not ...

Locals are turning this natural wonder into a world-class climbing destination. Ancient granite, dramatic cliffs, and breathtaking views are available here. White House dismisses scores of ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization ... The so-called Queen’s Chamber and King’s Chamber, that contains a granite sarcophagus, are higher up, within the pyramid structure. Khufu’s ...

Stay awake all night, and you’ll find that euphoria hits you with the dawn. It was with a similar euphoria to the one Fiona Robertson describes at solstice festivals that I finished her poignant, ...

It is quite probable that the existence of this granite (sic ... Lions are commonly seen as subjects of early Greek mythology and art. The proximity of the Lion of Kea to the modern city of Ioulis has ...

Swiss archaeologists recently announced the discovery of an Ancient Roman building after a pedestrian alerted authorities to ...

The ancient Greeks were incredibly talented mathematicians—but they rarely used numbers in their math. Their particular specialty, geometry, dances around actual quantities, focusing on higher ...

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, in collaboration with the presidency office, started the restoration project of the granite column of Saraya El-Qubba garden. The garden is located ...

When we visited King Tut’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, we were in the midst of a guided Abercrombie & Kent tour of Egypt ...

These spectacular stone structures represent some of the most significant depictions of the religious and funerary practices of an ancient society that drew on both its Greek and Persian heritage.

There’s a reason many of us know the word for “marketplace”(agora) in ancient Greek, but few of us know the word for “marketplace” in Sumerian or Egyptian. Unlike the satrapies of ...