Archaeologists excavating a massive tomb in Pompeii unearthed extremely rare, nearly life-size marble statues that shed new light on the power held by priestesses in the ancient city.

Archaeologists found the tomb nearly 23 feet (about 7 meters) underground at the site of an ancient necropolis, or “city of the dead.” The necropolis is situated at Abydos’ Anubis Mountain ...

Pavlopetri, the World’s Oldest Underwater Town In 1967, Nicholas Flemming discovered an entirely submerged ancient city off the coast of Greece. Pavlopetri, thought to be 5,000 years old, is the ...

You can wake up in a cave in some areas, pass through Roman ruins at noon, and view the sunset across two continents in Turkey. And here, in this region, these variations are not simply on page in ...