A new comprehensive map reveals the true scale of the ancient Roman road network – but it is still incomplete.

The digital tool, called Itiner-e, allows people to virtually see a map of how the ancient Roman roads were once traveled in ...

The ancient Greek society was a complex mix of ingenuity, brutality, eccentricities and practices that you may define as cultural rites that often fall outside of contemporary expectations. Of the ...

The Roman Empire had an impressive road network. A new dataset now visualizes the road map, adding over 100,000 kilometers of ...

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One of the best-preserved cities of the ancient world, Pergamon sits near modern-day Turkey's west coast next to the city known as Bergama. Pergamon was a prosperous, cosmopolitan city that flourished ...

A German woman who stole the top of an ancient column in Olympia over half a century ago has returned it to Greece, the Greek culture ministry said Saturday. The capital of the column, made of ...

Visitors to Athens are now being treated to a sight not witnessed in decades: an unobstructed, scaffolding-free view of the iconic Parthenon temple. Strolling along the broad pedestrian street at the ...

The fortress of Gla, the largest fortified Mycenaean acropolis to survive within Greek territory, still dominates the plain of Kopaida. Credit: Archaeological Museum of Thebes The draining of Lake ...

The iron constructions inevitably hid certain details and altered the aesthetic experience on the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis, however the scaffolding is set to return for restoration work to ...

vA German woman has returned an ancient Greek artifact she stole more than half a century ago from Olympia, Greece, the Greek Ministry of Culture announced on Saturday. The artifact—a limestone column ...