The Spartan army clash with the Thebans and general Epaminondas at the Leuctra battlefield signified the end of Sparta's ...

Sparta was one of the most powerful city-states in antiquity. The ancient capital of the Laconia district of the southeastern ...

Ruins of the Palaspata temple complex from the millennia-old Tiwanaku civilization are unraveling some mysteries about the ...

This is the second installment of Edmonds resident Nathaniel Brown’s recent travels to Greece. You can read part 1 here.

Excavations in the Nile Delta have revealed multi-story tower houses, a granary, a ceremonial building, and eye-catching ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and monuments that point to its significance as an important ceremonial site ...

The figures, dated between 500 and 300 BC, "could be linked to ancient ritual practices of ancestor worship," said the ministry. "Unique canal system" The city, which covers an area of about six ...

Long ago, in the realms of myth and legend, lay the ancient city of Dwarka, which was no ordinary city, but a place of divine origin, that is believed to have been created by Lord Krishna himself ...

They marched toward Boeotia to meet the enemy and found them at the Asopus River, near the city of Plataea. Since the Persians outnumbered them three to one, the Greeks avoided direct confrontation ...

A gargantuan gold-and-ivory statue of the god Zeus—some 40 feet high—dazzled the ancient world when it was built in the 5th century B.C. After standing for 8 centuries, it disappeared, and its ...