Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Greek sanctuary in Ponte during the construction of a high-speed railway in Italy.

Alexander the Great is said to have rejected a colossal Mount Athos project that could have been the eighth wonder of the ...

The religions of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans, often simply called “classical religion,” are often viewed as ...

The city of Thônis-Heracleion was once Egypt's largest port on the Mediterranean Sea, controlling trade for centuries before ...

A mass grave in the Negev excavated by the Israel Antiquities Authority sheds light on funerary, divination, and commercial practices in the first millennium BCE ...

Read on to discover the stories behind Egypt's greatest funerary monuments ... human remains and there’s no valley temple (a place where the royal mummy was received), which was a standard inclusion ...

Gordion was the capital of ancient Phrygia, an Iron Age kingdom of Anatolia, said to have been ruled by the legendary King Midas.

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose ... appeared to have served a funerary purpose. The significant Greek influence on the architecture was ...

Known by the ancient ... adjoining temples, and in both cases, human victims had been sacrificed for them. Among the array of grave goods found with the Red Queen, her magnificent funerary mask ...

With the head of a lion, the body of a woman, and near uncontrollable blood lust, Sekhmet stands out as one of ancient Egypt’s most fearsome ... and Amenhotep III put hundreds of statues of her in his ...

1214 This sacrament is called Baptism , after the central rite by which it is carried out: to baptize (Greek baptizein ... However, from ancient times it has also been able to be conferred ...

A new report details the extensive damage to the ancient city of Palmyra following the end of the Assad regime. The report documents the destruction of key monuments like the Tetrapylon and the Temple ...