A study reveals that amber marked social status for the ancient Mycenaeans due to its connection to the sun and power.

Pavlopetri, a small islet in the Peloponnese, is the oldest ancient Greek city that has ever been discovered underwater.

Long destroyed, the Colossus of Rhodes was a World Wonder that survives in paintings, documentaries, and even a few video ...

the pebbled design is part of a 2,400-year-old floor Sonja Anderson Houses and businesses across the Greek capital incorporate—or obscure—structures spanning the city’s ancient, Byzantine ...

Despite the importance of Crete to ancient Greek civilization, archaeological study of its culture is relatively ... appearing in jewelry, ceramics, sculpture, and painting. FUNKYSTOCK/AGE ...

At the entrance to the jewelry galleries at the ... way gemstones are named in Latin and Greek. The name ‘garnet’ for example, comes from the way the Ancient Greeks described the red, glowing ...

In the following interview, he also dispels some long-held notions about ancient Greece's most legendary ... I think the artists and the architects of any culture strive for what they consider ...

The incredible National Archeological Museum has an extensive collection of artifacts spanning various periods of Greek history. At the Museum you can see exquisite sculptures, ancient pottery, gold ...

And jewelry ... to return [artifacts to] their rightful owner, whether that owner is an individual or a community or a nation.” Phoebe Segal, the MFA’s senior curator of ancient Greek and ...

A team of Egyptian archaeologists has unearthed a fort dating back millennia in Hosh Issa, uncovering artifacts including ... the title is the ancient Greek name for Ramses II.