The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

Get ready “to rethink the entire human past of the Amazon,” says archaeologist Stéphen Rostain. After two decades of field work and research, the French archaeologist has unveiled evidence of a ...

Nearby, archaeologists uncovered a Roman residential villa that appears to have belonged to a wealthy owner. The villa features intricate mosaic floors utilizing both Opus Tessellatum and Opus Sectile ...

A marble head of Artemis, probably of Athenian manufacture, and statues inside a museum at the site of Halaesa, an ancient Greek and Roman city being excavated on the northern coast of Sicily near ...

New research reveals how stepped terraces in ancient Sardis shaped early urban planning and influenced later monumental ...

Some ancient cities could hear intruders before they could see them. Others were so obsessed with luxury that they built ...

Archaeologists believe they have discovered the ancient Greek city of Tenea, a place that previously existed only in myths and historical texts. As myth has it, the Trojans built the city after the ...

The ancient city of Napata, located in what is now northern Sudan, stood for centuries as a powerful urban and cultural center of the Kingdom of Kush. A new study explains how the city owed its ...

Beneath the modern skyline of Mexico City, something older still lingers quietly. On the surface, it is a crowded capital ...