An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.

Not only were ancient sculptures multi-colored, they were also scented with perfumes, oils, and flower arrangements.

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideological purposes. But in reality, ancient works of art were colorful, and ...

At a rock art site located on the western bank of the Nile River, an ancient Egyptian petroglyph depicting a […] ...

Many important ancient Greek women—poets, philosophers, and leaders— defied norms and shaped history for generations.

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

This photo provided by João Zilhão shows forearm bone fragments belonging to an ancient child that appeared to have features from both humans and Neanderthals. (João Zilhão via AP) 33,571 ...

It was the year 467 BC when an enraged woman approached the door of the Temple of Athena Chalkioikos in Sparta and placed a brick with an inscription that read: Unworthy of being a Spartan, you are ...

Were there demonstrations and protests in ancient Greece and if so, how did people get the chance to participate?

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

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From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.