"We weren't actually looking for a pot of gold." Archaeologists were recently excavating a house from the third century B.C.E ...

Walking into the ruins of an ancient tomb in southern Greece, archaeologists inadvertently joined a centuries-long tradition. The 2,400-year-old tomb had seen all manner of visitors from mourners to ...

A British pensioner found a 2,300 year old ancient Greek crown packed with crumpled old newspapers in an old cardboard box ...

Coins minted from gold and silver later became a standardized medium of exchange in ancient Greece and Rome, making it easier to conduct large transactions across the Mediterranean and beyond.

A German tourist who attempted to smuggle an ancient Greek marble column out of the country has been arrested and now faces a ...

Three different designs of ancient Greek columns. The Greeks believed that ... To make them even more spectacular, they added some gold, bronze and ivory jewellery - this would glint and sparkle ...