Athens-based independent scholar Demetrius Savvides has shown that in Amphipolis, northern Greece, where the Kastas Monument ...

Eventually, life led me to work at a marble workshop, and I felt like a fish in water,” he tells Business of Home. Roberto ...

The stone itself is made of limestone, a material commonly used in Jerusalem during the Second Temple period. Though other menorah carvings have ... that mirrors ancient textual descriptions.

Later, that first layer of ornamental carvings was removed and replaced by a second, deeper motif filled with diagonal lines. The triangular shapes and patterns ... and stone ax blades. A Roman ...

At the beginning of the 13th century, infamous leader Genghis Khan united the Mongols under a common goal — invading the Chinese empire. The land fell to the Mongols in an era that would later be ...

For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood ... many sculptures were covered in bright paints and patterns. Some were adorned with jewelry.

The volcanic slab, inscribed with Ancient Greek, may rewrite what we know about the Roman Empire’s reach — and the towns it controlled. Scientists say that the basalt stone, unearthed in Upper ...

This stone, originally used to demarcate land boundaries as part of Roman Emperor Diocletian’s tax reforms, sheds light on ancient land ownership, local settlement patterns, and the administrative ...

The stone carvings were called herms—a shortened version of Hermes’s name. They were unique to the Greeks and showed a larger-than-life phallus. They were found everywhere. Twenty-five hundred years ...

One of archaeology’s most fascinating mysteries began a new chapter when amateur archaeologists in England found a large Roman dodecahedron — one of 130 of the 12-sided ancient objects known ...

Two ancient Roman mosaics ... the role of rural houses in Roman Britain. “Made of thousands of tiny blocks of stone called tesserae laid together to create patterns or figural scenes, [mosaics ...