The Trojan War was one of the most significant and famous events in Greek history – at least, as far as the ancient Greeks ...

A 6th c. BC ancient Greek marriage contest, ruined by Hippocleides’ infamous drunken dance, led to the establishment of ...

The team behind what has been described as "one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK" have revealed that it ...

A rare mosaic found beneath a farmer's field actually depicts a different historical tale than researchers previously thought ...

Iris is the Greek goddess of rainbows, symbolic of carrying messages between the divine world to humankind. October-borns ...

Section of Panel 1 of the Ketton Mosaic shows Hector, prince of Troy, in his chariot. (©ULAS). A second-century Roman coin from Ilium in Turkey, labelled ‘Hector’, is an earlier example of the same ...

Director of Medea Leila Henriques reveals how she brought ancient Greek tragedy into contemporary Johannesburg.

By Middle East Eye correspondent Sean Mathews, the book is a vigorous, evocative ramble through today’s Greece and its faded ...

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

Layers of forgotten civilisations shape these ancient-world books that avoid Egypt, Greece and Rome, bringing vivid echoes of ...

History Hit’s Ancient Adventures: Libya, a 50-minute exploration of one of the world’s least-seen archaeological frontiers, ...

The Royal Navy came into its own during the "Age of Reason," in which ancient Greece was seen as a virtuous and exemplary ...