The lifestyle of elite professional sportsmen in ancient Greece and Rome was comparable to that of a celebrity today.

"We found it by accident. It was amazing. A whole statue appeared in front of us." Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman ...

linking the development of ancient metal smelting practices to long-term environmental change Ella Jeffries The discovery might illuminate the link between the blue pigment's ancient Egyptian ...

The findings suggest that lead pollution due to human activities began approximately 1,200 years earlier than previously thought, and that the expansion of the Roman Empire across the Aegean ...

The trafficking of antiquities from ancient Greece is not new as police continue ... putting in natural gas pipelines near Athens found a Roman-era statue of the ancient Greek god Hermes buried ...

(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy ... Around that time, in 146 B.C., the Roman army conquered the Greek peninsula, transforming ...