Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

The few that could be opened were philosophical texts written in ancient Greek. But most of the scrolls were so badly damaged, they were considered illegible. More recently, researchers managed to ...

ATHENS, Greece -- Earthquakes rattled Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini every few minutes through the night and into Wednesday as authorities bolstered their emergency plans in case the ...

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

ATHENS, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Hundreds more people were expected to leave Greece's Santorini island on Wednesday as tremors shook the popular summer tourist destination for a sixth day. About 10,000 ...

The second was posed in the eighteenth century, when scholars noticed similarities between classical Greek and Latin and Sanskrit, an ancient language from South Asia, and suggested a common origin.

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Relatively little is known about the creators of the script ...

The Worcester Art Museum (WAM) in Massachusetts concluded ... which suggest that they may have been stolen or looted. These two ancient Greek objects were Healey’s first finds.

While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece, it's this one in central Athens that garners the most attention. In fact, it's routinely referred to simply as "The ...

The large Cycladic marble female figure dates back to 2,500 BC and, according to the auction house, comes from a private collection. Credit: Christie’s A number of stunning ancient Greek artifacts are ...