Sediment cores from the Aegean Sea reveal that human-driven lead contamination began 5,200 years ago—much earlier than expected. This pollution is tied to shifts in economy and land use, culminating ...

The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

The issue of who was considered Greek during the era of ancient Greece has been a matter of broad scholarly debate for ...

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

An overview of Ancient Greek art, including painting, sculpture and architecture, and a look at how it changed over the years ...

Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general who was Alexander's close friend and bodyguard ... For hundreds of years, the tomb was a "very well-known pilgrimage center across the ancient Mediterranean ...

Alexander the Great is one of the most famous generals of the ancient world. By the age of 32 he had conquered a massive ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

BCE, two titans of the Hellenistic world clashed in one of the ancient world’s largest battles to decide the fate of ...

But these are not the only global naming disputes in recent history. For over a quarter century, the Balkans were at odds ...