A recently discovered Greek inscription at the base of a column inside the Great Mosque of Homs in Syria has rekindled a longstanding scholarly debate about the exact location of the Temple of the sun ...

The Byzantine Greeks are a nation that is very often misunderstood for a number of historical and political reasons.

New tours of the Rockefeller Museum showcase artifacts ranging from First Temple-period jewelry to Egyptian pharaohs. The ...

The Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens offers visitors a fascinating journey through Greece’s Byzantine and ...

Ellen Meeropol’s new novel 'Sometimes an Island' blends climate fiction with family drama, exploring migration, survival and intentional communities.

How many of us knew that the city of Gaza, the war-torn Palestinian enclave, has a Greek past that defined the history of the ...

A remarkable Roman mosaic found in Rutland turns out to tell a forgotten version of the Trojan War. Rather than Homer’s famous epic, it reflects a lost Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, featuring vivid ...

An ancient skyscraper considered the seventh wonder of the world crumbled to ruin centuries ago. Now an ambitious archaeological project aims to reassemble it in 3-D.

"We see evidence of restoration. Work will continue to restore the architectural texture in other parts of the site and to bring additional archaeological data to light," said the research team leader ...

Alexander Mosaic, c. 100 B.C.E., Roman copy of a lost Greek painting, House of the Faun, Pompeii. When Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii under a torrent of ash in A.D. 79, it also preserved one of the ...

A 1,600-year-old estate connected to the ancient Samaritans – a group depicted in the Bible – has been uncovered in Israel. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced the discovery in a Facebook ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Israeli archaeologists unearthed written evidence of what could be the world’s oldest nursing home from the Byzantine Empire’s Hippos. The discovery ...