Yet the beach was not all bad for the Greeks. Because the beach acted as a bridge between sea and land, the Greeks thought ...

Ancient documents show that Argos once ruled over a small empire within Greece that has mostly been forgotten today.

Ancient Greeks feared beaches, seeing them as barren and linked to death, unlike today’s peaceful coastal escapes.

Greek literature discounts all the positive sensations of the beach and the sea and focuses on the negative ones in order to stress the discomfort the ancient Greeks felt about the beach and the sea ...

At the Roman settlement of A Cibdá de Armea in northwestern Spain, archaeologists uncovered evidence suggesting that ancient ...

Historian Tom Holland uncovers how politics, myth and maternal ambition collided in the scandalous reign of the Roman emperor ...

A LONG extinct creature has been found inside a 2,000-year-old amulet that ancient Romans may have believed held magic powers ...

Google ’s DeepMind has unveiled a new artificial intelligence tool capable of deciphering and contextualising ancient texts, including Roman-era Latin inscriptions. The new AI, named Aeneas, could be ...

In “Stan and Gus,” Henry Wiencek explores the creative highs and private peccadilloes of the architect Stanford White and the ...

Archaeologists have discovered an extinct species of animal in a Roman amulet in what's been dubbed a "world-first" find.

According to one legend, Delphinus represents the dolphin that carried the ancient Greek poet Arion safely to shore at Tarentum, allowing him to escape his enemies. The figure of the young man on the ...

A student-developed Augmented Reality project brings the marvels of Islamic art and heritage directly to our mobile phones ...