The archaeological finds kept coming for a team of 50 researchers on the Greek island of Evia. But the kicker may have been locating 2,700-year-old altars full of precious jewels and historical ...

If you were dropped into Paestum and not told the location, you’d think you were in Greece. But you are in Salerno, Italy, where the remains of three Greek temples, with beautifully carved columns, ...

You rounded the last bend on a winding rocky road and there it was. Not shining, creamy white like the Parthenon but a cold stern grey, the Doric columns growing as naturally out of the Greek ...

As more than 700 runners from around the world competed in Greece last weekend on a clay track steeped in antiquity, the Temple of Zeus stood watch from the same place it did when athletes raced at ...

Because most of the elite had the benefit of a classical education, they naturally turned to ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration. Greece was the home of democracy, and Greco-Roman architecture was ...

With the famed ruins of Pompeii looming large in people’s imaginations, many of Italy’s smaller and lesser-known ancient sites often are overlooked. One such place is Paestum, a long-ago Greek colony ...

Archeologists have discovered a lost ancient Greek temple dedicated to the goddess of war, after translating a newly found case of 2,500-year-old graffiti. Among over 2,000 remnants of ancient Greek ...

Thirty-eight great statues of Atlas, all now ruined, once decorated the ancient Greek Temple of Olympic Zeus. Archaeologists have a novel plan for the remains. By Franz Lidz Of all the punishments ...

An excavation on the Greek island of Evia uncovered an unknown temple near the Temple of Amarysia Artemis still overflowing with rich offerings. Heavily used altars filled with ash found in the temple ...