The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.

Archaeologists often spend long amounts of time at a dig site, only to dig up garbage such as bottle caps and soda cans, or ...

Nick Angeloff, an archaeologist at Cal Poly Humboldt, has called the developments at Gradishte a once-in-a-lifetime discovery ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a 2,200-year-old pyramid, Ancient Origins ... textiles, Greek papyrus documents, colored beads, sewing needles, weapons, and bronze coins from the Ptolemies ...

Jo Marchant, Nature In 1900, Greek divers rifling through an ancient shipwreck recovered dozens of bronze fragments that ... A person puts a coin in a slot at the top of a box.

Artifacts found at the site date the city back to Alexander the Great’s lifetime, though some experts suggest humans may have ...

They were founded before 1900, endured two World Wars, two bankruptcies, the bailout-era crisis, and remained standing. Among ...

TEHRAN - In a landmark archaeological breakthrough, Iranian researchers have discovered what is believed to be the long-lost ...

Kenya's Sharon Lokedi and John Korir wins elite races 129th Boston Marathon with the wheelchair races won by Marcel Hug and Susannah Scaroni.

Before them was a safe, one of six containing a cache of 2,000-year-old gold jewelry, ornaments and coins ... high bronze figure of Hercules and a gilded silver plaque that combines Greek and ...

Furthermore, the precious metals were necessary for the Greeks to mint coins ... silver, and bronze in the Mycenaean period. In Homeric poetry, we have the mention of “Mycenae rich in gold.” Since ...