Ancient DNA from Mycenaean livestock reveals a rare western Mediterranean lineage in pigs at Tiryns, offering new insight ...

The origins of ancient Greek city names like Athens and Olympia reflect mythology, history, and the development of Greek ...

Archaeologists have gathered evidence from hundreds of Bronze Age sites in western Turkey that could be remnants of a ...

Around 1200 BCE, the great empires of the eastern Mediterranean — the Hittites, the Mycenaeans, and the city-states of the ...

Archaeologists in Greece have uncovered the grave of an ousted noblewoman whom they are calling "The Lady with the Inverted ...

There’s something electric about walking down a street where every stone beneath your feet has witnessed empires rise and fall. In a handful of places around the globe, the ancient past doesn’t hide ...

The biggest puzzle of all is what caused the apparently peaceful and well-organized Indus civilization to collapse over the ...

The monstrous creatures of Greek myth, such as the giant one-eyed Cyclops, may have been inspired by large fossils of extinct animals, which are plentiful in Greece. Scholars surmise that fossil ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History connects people everywhere to Earth’s unfolding story. Its researchers, scientific collections, free exhibitions and educational programs address ...

The 2025 archaeological campaign at the Minoan palace of Archanes, directed by Dr. Efi Sapouna-Sakellaraki, has unearthed a ...