Depictions of the bee appear very early in the development of coinage in ancient Greece, which may have started in Ephesus.

Aristotle’s Poetics has arguably influenced modern culture more than any other ancient text. The Greek philosopher’s 4th ...

Bread has been intricately woven into human history for thousands of years, and ancient Greece was no exception.

It was built during the 4th century ... in south west Greece. Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and take part. Image caption, The ancient Olympic ...

Treating’ Amulet Unearthed in Turkey With Crab Motif and Healing Inscriptions Excavations conducted in the ancient city of ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375 BC, has shaped western political ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman sewer last week made a spectacular discovery—a nearly complete marble statue of a Greek god ... was founded in the 4th century BC by colonists from ...

Letters like this reveal ancient people ... There are also letters in which people describe items they have sent to their addressees. For example, in the 4th century AD, Psaeis wrote a letter ...

Ancient Greeks held festivals ... Guarded on pain of death, the rituals remain mysterious to this day. By the fourth century B.C., cults had emerged that claimed to offer purification by cleansing ...

It was built during the 4th century ... of Greeks would come to the games from across the Mediterranean, all converging on Olympia to experience the greatest spectacle of the ancient world.

This is also how the Roman emperor Julian spent his summers in the 4th century CE ... Relaxing by the coast was one of the things people in ancient Greece and Rome most enjoyed doing in the ...