In 1962, archaeologists uncovered an extraordinary artifact in a tomb near Thessaloniki, Greece—the Derveni Papyrus.

Earthquakes are still rattling Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini every few minutes as authorities bolster their emergency plans in case the hundreds of temblors over the past few days are a ...

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe that transformed the culture and genetics of Europe and Asia, revealing a potential source for the Indo–European ...

ATHENS, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Hundreds more people were expected to leave Greece's Santorini island on Wednesday as tremors shook the popular summer tourist destination for a sixth day. About 10,000 ...

(Glyptothek, Munich). Credit: Egisto Sani, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The issue of who was considered Greek during the era of ancient Greece has been a matter of broad scholarly debate for centuries. The ...

And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Relatively little is known about the creators of the script ...

Researchers found that levels of lead contamination remained fairly low and localized in ancient Greece and increased rapidly during Greece’s conquest by the Romans. Credit: Public Domain The oldest ...