WASHINGTON — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

This Valentine’s Day, Christie’s invites romantics to skip the glitzy showrooms of Bvlgari, Cartier, and Harry Winston and instead explore an exclusive auction of ancient gold jewelry. With dazzling ...

An approximately 3,500-year-old settlement was discovered in Egypt in Kom el-Negus, located about 27 miles west of Alexandria ...

The venerable auction house is unloading one-of-a-kind gold necklaces, rings, trinkets and more from ancient Greece, Rome and ...

A headless and armless small marble Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period turned up in the trash in Thessaloniki.

A historic marble statue of a woman has been found discarded in a rubbish bag by a local resident near Thessaloniki, Greece.

Greek authorities investigating the statue's mysterious appearance say it dates back to the Hellenistic period between 323 B.C. and 31 B.C.

The discovery of a 2000-year-old headless statue from the Hellenistic period has prompted Greek police to investigate.

There couldn’t have been a better mascot for fashion than the snake, which is slithering its way into the Lunar New Year as ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the head of a Ptolemaic period Greek statue at the ruins of a 7th-century AD house in Taposiris Magna ...

Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt Mohamed Abdel-Badie, head of the Egyptian Antiquities Sector, ...

Are period dramas in right now? Looking at Netflix’s upcoming slate, you’d get that impression with quite an array of titles coming up from around the world. Below, we’ll look at Netflix’s movie and ...