The attempt of the Pythagoreans to reshape society in Croton, Magna Graecia, through politics led to public backlash and persecution.

Ancient Greek history is full of the names of great minds: philosophers, scientists, statesmen, generals, historians and ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

Police opened an investigation to determine who discarded the statue and briefly detained a man for questioning ... common in Greece, a country renowned for its ancient heritage, and often made ...

The man who found the statue took it to authorities ... in natural gas pipelines near Athens found a Roman-era statue of the ancient Greek god Hermes buried upright in a brick-lined pit near ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the nearly ...

This year is not only the 1,700th anniversary of the first ecumenical council of the church, but also one of the years when ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long ...