Now, you can zoom around this huge, detailed map of the ancient world labeled with cities from all sorts of archaeological records, classical text references and European imagery ...

Before satellites and global positioning systems, ancient civilizations charted their known universe with remarkable ingenuity. Among these early cartographic marvels, the Babylonian Map of the ...

Researchers think they have found a depiction of Noah’s Ark on the 3,000-year-old Babylonian Map of the World. Also known as the Imago Mundi, the clay tablet has baffled archaeologists for over ...

Anti-magic legislation existed in both ancient Greece and ancient Rome, even before the days of Christianity, but often such laws only covered magic that actually killed, as when a stepmother was ...

What technology could change the way we learn about shipwrecks 05:06. A new survey of an iconic ancient shipwreck off the coast of Greece has revealed new treasures — and the remains of a second ...

The 61-year-old ex-prez toured the historic Acropolis site in Athens on Wednesday with wife Michelle and their daughters, Malia, 24, and Sasha, 22, in tow.

Find out who the ancient Greeks were - when they lived, how they were ruled and how they spent their time with this year 5/6 primary history guide from BBC Bitesize.

An ancient site at the newly built Agias Sofias metro station ahead of its Nov. 30 official opening, in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Friday, part of the city’s long-delayed subway system ...

Wildfires have killed at least 74 people as blazes engulfed popular summer resort spots near Athens, Greece, this week. With winds of 50 mph that frequently changed direction, fires are spreading ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world. The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists, architects and politicians .