Between parked cars in a suburban street in Athens, workers fix a pump to an ancient stone well that in turn accesses an ...

Cultures throughout history have put lead to use for wacky and often deeply poisonous purposes ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval ...

Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

Swim through seagrass meadows, explore ancient history and observe dugongs among coral reefs — an awe-inspiring world beneath ...

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece.

The ancient Greeks used to make a wide variety of breads, as they considered it to be of great importance in their eating ...

The ruins of the ancient Greek port city of Adramytteion on Turkey's eastern coast emerged from the sea after sea levels ...

Over the next two and a half centuries, attempts were made to unfurl some of the hundreds of scrolls using everything from rose water and mercury ... texts written in ancient Greek.

The Pamukkale travertines are limestone slopes and thermal water pools that have attracted visitors since before the days of Ancient Greece, when the spa town of Hierapolis was founded at the top.