Last year, excavations in Chichester’s Priory Park revealed a masonry causeway and bridge that would have once led to the ...

For centuries, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have stirred fascination. These legendary structures, once towering ...

The second-largest island in Greece is small on the crowds but big when it comes to beaches, mountain trails, healing waters, ...

Greek fire was the mysterious weapon used by the Byzantines to destroy enemies and prospective invaders, keeping the Empire strong.

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

clock towers serve various symbolic purposes. Sundials, which tell time using shadows cast by the Sun, are perhaps the oldest human-made timekeeping devices. The Greek historian Herodotus (c. 484-425 ...

Eventually, we identified it as a tower or fortress dating back to the Hellenistic period, or 2,200 years ago.” The region’s Hellenistic period—named for pervasive Greek influence—began ...

Further investigation hopes to parse out the site’s use, whether as a guard tower ... bronze coins minted under Greek rulers, weapons aplenty, and even ancient furniture, eager archaeologists ...

The ruins are the first solid evidence of an era in which Hellenistic culture held sway in this ancient city ... and with strong towers.” Called the Acra—from the Greek for a high, fortified ...

“The slope angle of the towers suggests the original height of ... the lion-headed goddess and patron of the Athribis temple. ANCIENT EGYPT HEADLINES: Period of Ancient Egypt Illuminated by ...

The roughly 170-foot-long structure had a tower ... ancient Egypt from 145 B.C. until his death in 116 B.C., according to Britannia. He was part of the Ptolemaic dynasty when Macedonian, or Greek ...