A lost Hittite inscription has revealed new evidence about a king who ruled the ancient city of Karkemish before Assyria's conquest. A fresh examination of the inscription suggests that scholars had linked it to the wrong ruler for decades....
Kyriakos Vardakos was elected president of the Hellenic Federation of South Africa at its 2026 annual congress, which also elected a new board and executive committee.
Pottery recovered from an ancient mound in southern Turkey has revealed possible connections to Athens, Sparta, and Ionia, researchers say. An analysis of ceramics from the settlement known today as Yumuktepe, in modern-day Mersin on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, found...
An ancient Amazonian civilization built enormous circles, squares, and other structures of geometry in Brazil's rainforest around the time the Greek mathematician Pythagoras lived. Archaeologists have now identified hundreds of previously unknown earthworks, revealing the scale of these ancient...
A study of 208 bronze coins associated with Hellenistic Kibyra in present-day southwestern Turkey is revealing how money from Rhodes, Lycia, and neighboring cities circulated together for centuries. The collection, held by the Burdur Museum since 1971, also suggests...
French and Iraqi archaeologists have uncovered more of a 3,800-year-old bridge in the ancient city of Larsa in southern Iraq, including a brick inscribed with the name of a Mesopotamian king. The structure crossed a major canal and offers...
An ancient Greek tombstone reused in a village house has revealed the first documented physician in Mysia Abbaeitis, a region of Roman Anatolia in present-day western Turkey. The stone names Alexandros and honors him as "the best physician of...
Excavations at Alexandria Troas in present-day northwestern Turkey have revealed elaborate marble decoration inside an ancient odeon, including carved friezes, column bases, and stone thresholds leading to its stage building.
Findings from the 2024 excavation season show the structure was...
Researchers have traced marble discovered in the ancient city of Thapsus, in present-day Tunisia, to Greek quarries on Paros, Euboea, and the Mani Peninsula. The findings reveal how valuable building materials traveled across the Mediterranean during the Roman period...
An ancient burial mound near Troy in northwestern Turkey may be the original tomb of Greek hero Ajax, according to a new study that reexamines discoveries along the Dardanelles coast. Excavations have confirmed that the site, long mistaken for...
Israel’s political transition has triggered a confrontation over national security, with Prime Minister-designate Gadi Eisenkot warning outgoing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against launching new military operations against Iran before a new government takes office.
In a letter sent Wednesday, Eisenkot,...
Turkish tourism authorities have launched a new cultural travel route retracing the historic journey of Xenophon’s 10,000 ancient Greek mercenaries.
The Turkey Tourism Promotion and Development Agency officially unveiled the project under the name "Anabasis Northern Route." The itinerary connects...
Archaeologists have identified 27 clay perfume bottles and other cosmetic vessels uncovered near the Temple of Zeus in present-day western Turkey, suggesting a shop may have operated at the site about 2,200 years ago. Excavators found them in 2022...
Malaysia has granted legal protection to the name of Greece's feta cheese, registering the product as a geographical indication and giving Greek producers greater safeguards against unauthorized use of the name in the Malaysian market.
The registration was published on...
Archaeologists in Western Siberia have uncovered an ancient grave containing pottery and horse bones linked to a distant Siberian Bronze Age culture. Combined with new genetic evidence, the discovery suggests that migrating populations may have helped shape a previously...
