As tourists continue to descend on Mykonos, few realise that there is a gorgeous island just a few miles away that receives ...

When Alexander the Great visited the tomb of Cyrus of Persia, he found it ransacked and ordered that the tomb be restored.

Teos was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia ... Zarmakoupi and her colleagues uncovered the tiled edge of mosaic flooring. The excavation eventually revealed two large mosaics, dating ...

Even in those long ago times, mosaic used a lot of local and natural materials, so was sustainable even then. The Ancient Greeks ... found thrown away concrete flooring slabs on the beach by ...

A new study challenges the long-held belief that the tomb of Philip II of Macedon lies within the Great Tumulus at Vergina, ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine are among the world leaders who plan to attend the funeral. The ...

Works on display include a sprawling mosaic floor that once adorned a Byzantine ... The proximity of a Hamas barracks proved fatal to the ancient Greek site of Anthedon, most of which has been ...

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...

The district includes the original site of the ancient ... intricate floor mosaics, renowned for their excellent preservation and vibrant colours, depicting various scenes from Greek mythology.

Archaeologists in Greece ... the second floor and a library. The peristyle was flanked by stone colonnades, which we are restoring to a height of six meters. We are redoing all the mosaics on ...