The ancient Greek city of Sicyon located in the northern Peloponnese may not be as well known as other city-states, but excavations in the last few years are bringing to light important clues about its history.
One of the most...
Greece's Ministry of Culture is proceeding with the restoration of the Ancient Theater of Gitana in Epirus' Thesprotia region.
Gitana (or Gitanai) was far more than a simple settlement; it was the political and administrative heart of the Thesprotian tribe....
Near the coast of Peru lies the ancient city of Caral, which was in existence at the same time as the Egyptians were still building the pyramids. Caral is said to be the first ancient city of the Americas.
Caral...
The assembly hall at the ancient Hellenistic city of Stratonikeia, also known as the “City of Gladiators,” located in modern-day Muğla Province, Turkey is being restored to its former glory with the goal to allow visitors to see its...
A sarcophagus decorated with garlands, believed to be 2,000 years old, has been unearthed during excavations at the ancient city of Stratonikeia, located in the western province of Muğla's Yatağan district in Turkey.
Listed on UNESCO’s World Heritage Tentative List...
Excavations in the ancient city of Nikopolis in Epirus, northwestern Greece, may have uncovered the building of the Sebasteion (“temple of the emperors”) in the agora, the square that constituted the town’s urban center.
Nikopolis, which means “City of Victory”,...
Greece's Ministry of Culture is proceeding with the restoration and maintenance of the acropolis of Pelinna, an ancient Greek city-state of Thessaly.
Pelinna, located east of the modern city of Trikala, gained particular prominence in the fourth century BCE through...
Paw prints found on artifacts in the ancient Greek city of Heraclea (Herakleia) in today's southwestern Turkey show that local inhabitants loved their animals.
The excavations unearthed artifacts such as figurative mosaics, oil lamps, bricks with paw prints, and tombs...
Archaeologists have discovered two ancient tombs in Egypt containing the mummies of a man and a woman with several golden tongues and nails.
This is one of the rarer cases in Egyptian archaeology in which one of the tombs had...
