Theophrastus, was an ancient Greek philosopher who succeeded Aristotle and became the father of botany. What was his ...

A common whiff in the Roman city would have come from the animals and the waste they created. Roman bakeries frequently used ...

The roar of the arena crowd, the bustle of the Roman forum, the grand temples, the Roman army in red with glistening shields ...

Archaeologists recently excavated an ancient workshop on Paros, Greece, revealing unfinished sculptures and intriguing artifacts from the Classical period.

A Germany university revealed the discovery of an ancient Greek lecture hall in Agrigento, Italy — highlighting important parallels between ancient and modern education.

A theater that once overlooked ancient Lefkada in Greece is seeing the light of day more than a century after its initial discovery.

Take Greek mythology, for example: those stories are timeless because we constantly refer to myths and stories of Ancient Greece to make sense of contemporary events.

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. Cecilie ...

Archeologists uncovered a heroon—a funerary monument to an Ancient Greek hero—near the modern Greek city of Aigio in the Peloponnese. Located in the ancient city of Rypes (initially settled by ...

An archaeological excavation in Greece has revealed the remains of an ancient monumental building replete with marble lion sculptures and intriguing gold artifacts, among other finds.

“Not everything in Louisiana is Cajun land,” Harris said. “Greek culture was important to many of the early settlers in northern Louisiana. From my study in some of the early educational inst… ...