Behind its tourism success, Athens is becoming foreign to its residents, archaeology professor Dimitris Plantzos argues in his new book

Plans to improve access to the site known as the School of Homer come as Ithaca and the legend of Odysseus draw international attention following the release and success of Christopher Nolan’s film 'The Odyssey'

The family-friendly festival at the British School in Athens will feature hands-on workshops, interactive activities and opportunities to explore archaeological research in both Greek and English

A new exhibition at the National Archaeological Museum and the German Archaeological Institute Athens examines a wartime rupture in the relationship between two institutions

New geophysical surveys suggest unexplored rooms may lie beyond Tutankhamun's burial chamber, reviving the theory that Nefertiti rests nearby

Archaeologists at Hattusa uncovered a clay tablet piece bearing text from the Kadesh Treaty, signed by Egypt and the Hittites about 3,300 years ago

An ongoing underwater cleanup has uncovered hundreds of discarded objects, including two World War II shells, as authorities expand efforts to restore and protect the lake in northwestern Greece

Archaeologists at Chan Chan uncovered a sealed Chimú mausoleum holding at least 38 people and a wealth of funerary treasures

A 25,000 year old skeleton from Sulawesi shows hunter gatherers sucked on betel nuts, likely to ease toothaches, in the earliest known case of habitual drug use

Divers found a submerged 4th-century BC Etruscan harbor near Rome, just steps from a temple dedicated to the goddess Minerva

New strontium isotope analysis shows the shackled men in the Esplanada mass grave were locals, not foreign invaders or outside political rivals

The skeleton of a young man from Stirling Castle in Scotland was likely crushed by a boulder fired from a trebuchet

A self-taught AI engineer's claim about Linear A shows both the promise and the pitfalls of using AI for ancient language decipherment

Hundreds of amphorae were found in the wreckage, offering archaeologists rare insights into trade in the Classical era

Dutch archaeologists find a Ramesside-era tomb belonging to a man named Paser, part of Egypt's push to boost tourism with new finds

A new exhibition at the Acropolis Museum explores ancient Greek art's journey to Italy, featuring 38 works from 22 Italian museums, some traveling abroad for the first time

Archaeologists found headless remains in a prehistoric settlement ditch, shedding light on unusual ritual burial practices from around 5000 BC

Stone tools found at the Lingjing site in central China are 20,000 years older than previously thought, rewriting the timeline of human innovation in East Asia

Spanish archaeologists have located more than 30 shipwrecks in the bay between Algeciras and Gibraltar, spanning from the 5th century BC to World War II

The sculpture depicts Athena standing on a circular base, dressed in a peplos and cloak, with the aegis—featuring the head of Medusa and serpents—visible on her chest