Regardless of its origin or meaning, however, the owl went on to play a massive role in ensuring Greek prosperity. Consisting ...

The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was a Greek engineering marvel that guided ships ...

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a Roman mosaic and an almost intact cistern in the ancient Greek city of Syedra.

Archaeologists have unearthed a well-preserved Roman-era mosaic and an intact cistern in the ancient city of Syedra, located ...

Kathleen Martinez, who has been searching for the tomb of Cleopatra for nearly 20 years, has uncovered a statue believed to ...

The takeover of the ancient site illustrates the expansion of settlers and the Israeli army presence in this Palestinian ...

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced this week it had successfully recovered a rare trove of smuggled ...

The items spanned centuries and included a range of styles from different eras of ancient Egyptian ... a gold coin from the reign of Ptolemy I -- a Greek general and successor of Alexander the ...

Each day, you probably use a variety of expressions, idioms, proverbs and slang that aren’t meant to be taken literally. If ...