The unique ancient Greek board game Zatrikion discovered at the Knossos Palace shows that the ancients had a penchant for leisurely games ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

For over two thousand years, successive societies forged the civilization of ancient Greece. From the early societies of the ...

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In the hills of Argolid, Greece, lies the Kazarma Bridge, a jewel of Mycenaean civilisation. Although it is over 3,300 years old, this structure is still functional today. Let's take a closer look at ...

Graves unearthed in northern Greece contain bones widely believed to be from victims of the country's civil war in the late 1940s ...

However, the local merchant and antiquarian Minos Kalokairinos had secured the rights to the plot where Knossos was located, and during the excavations he carried out on the site, he discovered ...

Credit: Proesi, CC BY-SA, 2.0 DE Kabbalah is a Jewish mystical tradition whose most profound influence is Greek philosophy, particularly the ideas of Neoplatonism, Gnosticism and Aristotelianism. With ...

All are thought to date from various periods of ancient Greek history and will be assessed by a state archaeological service. Police also confiscated metal detectors and scanning equipment ...

Authorities in Greece have arrested six people on the island of Crete in connection with an alleged antiquities smuggling ring that was attempting to sell dozens of ancient artifacts, police said ...

CAIRO, April 18 (Xinhua) -- An Egyptian archaeological mission has discovered a tomb dating back more than 4,000 years at the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, the Ministry of Tourism and ...