Not only were ancient sculptures multi-colored, they were also scented with perfumes, oils, and flower arrangements.

The Ionian League, was a confederation of twelve Ionian Greek city-states located along the coast of Asia Minor.

For centuries, scientists have known that the white marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome were once painted with rich […] ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideological purposes. But in reality, ancient works of art were colorful, and ...

Actors Circle will present the ancient Greek comedy, Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata” March 13-16 and March 21-23 at Providence ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

This photo provided by João Zilhão shows forearm bone fragments belonging to an ancient child that appeared to have features from both humans and Neanderthals. (João Zilhão via AP) 33,571 ...

Ancient Athens, located in the region of Attica, emerged as a powerful city-state in Greece during the 5th century BC. This period, often referred to as the “Golden Age of Athens,” saw the city become ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

It was just this month that an English-Egyptian archaeological mission revealed that it had uncovered the last missing tomb of a king from Ancient Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty, King Thutmose II ...