No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the ...

Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the ...

The Antikythera mechanism continues to stupefy researchers who have yet to determine how it detected the movement of the ...

Researchers simulated the device's ancient gear system to find out whether the contraption actually worked. Apparently, it ...

Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know how the rams were made ...

Archaeologists in Sicily have uncovered a rare gymnasium complex, featuring a lecture auditorium, in the ancient Greek city ...

Created by digital artist Juanjo Ortega G., the digital reconstruction depicts a woman who died in her mid-30s during the ...

The ancient school complex had a gymnasium with a large swimming pool and 650-foot tracks, archaeologists said.

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.

Ancient city The ruins of Megiddo are now in a national park about 18 miles (30 kilometers) southeast of Haifa. Megiddo was a strategically important city at a crossroads on trade and military ...

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