An Ancient Greek public building and extensive collection of marble treasures have been found partially submerged at the site of a now-sunken ancient city—once home to Trojan War warrior Ajax, ...

At the entrance to the Peloponnese, the city of Argos in Greece stands as a living witness to the ancient world. Four thousand years of history are etched in its stones, its streets still murmur with ...

A study reveals how a Greek city survived multiple seismic catastrophes over 3,000 years, adapting each time to the changing environment. The ancient city of Helike, capital of the region of Achaea, ...

Previously hidden structures in an ancient Greek city were revealed by the devastating flooding that struck Libya last month. The structures unexpectedly appeared at the archaeological site of Cyrene, ...

"Cities for Sale: Communal Patrimony and the Limits of Alienability in the Ancient Greek World" is presented by Emily Mackil of University of California, Berkeley. The phenomenon of public property in ...

Neolithic towns and villages in the Near East -- Early Sumerian cities -- Mesopotamian cities in the late third and second millennia BC -- Cities of the Indus Valley civilization -- Egypt of the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered portions of the ancient Greek city of Tenea, whose residents claimed they were prisoners of the Trojan War, the Greek Ministry of Culture announced this week. The ...

Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these would barely qualify as towns in modern terms. Even Athens, by far the largest of all city-states, only contained an ...

At least 15 people are dead and a dozen injured after overnight downpours caused sudden and catastrophic flooding in cities outside Athens, according to Reuters. In western cities like Mandra, Nea ...