For more than a century, archeologists have looked for proof that a complex in Ithaca was related to Odysseus, now they have ...

Was the Byzantine Empire a continuation of Ancient Greece, or something entirely new? In this video, we trace the Hellenization of the Eastern Roman Empire—from language shifts and classical education ...

Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...

A team of archaeologists has successfully identified the location of the ancient city of Tharais, a Byzantine site represented in the famous Madaba Map Mosaic.. The discovery, made in the northwest of ...

Students and archaeologists located temporary Roman military camp near Hoog Buurlo beyond ancient empire’s northern frontier, university said and photos show.

For the first time in history, archaeologists have mapped an entire ancient Roman city using ground-penetrating radar. According to The Guardian, the buried town of Falerii Novi contained a bathhouse, ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire.

The ancient Greek city of Antioch in Syria, also known as Antioch on the Orontes River, was the third-largest city in the Roman Empire. The only two Roman Empire cities larger than Antioch were ...