A Greek period Aramaic inscription found in eastern Turkey reveals the role of local elites in the ancient Kingdom of Sophene ...

Ancient Greeks saw Olympus as a divine realm of Zeus and the gods, not a mountain. Its link to Mount Olympus emerged in later traditions.

Athens and Beijing are seeking to strengthen cultural ties as 'Journey to Ancient Greece' opens at one of China's most ...

SHARJAH, 29th January, 2026 (WAM) -- The archaeological discoveries in Sharjah, particularly at Mleiha, provide compelling ...

Kirsty Coventry, the multi-Olympic swimming champion who last year became the first woman to lead the International Olympic ...

The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics begin in one week, and the United Nations and organizers are calling for a 7-week pause of all wars worldwide — as they do every time the Olympics take place.

If the rules of ancient Greece were observed today, drone and missile fire over Ukraine would stop on Friday as guns fall ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...

Imagine the bustle of a central street at dusk. The sound of conversation, the clinking of glasses, the smell of meat ...

This prehistoric piece of alder found at the Marathousa 1 archaeological site in Greece might be the earliest wooden tool ...

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...