Justin Jacobs, author and expert in modern Chinese history, discusses loot, antiquity, and imperialism in his new book.

Mythology has been the core of many peoples lives and continues to directly, and indirectly, guide entire civilizations ...

Dating back to 3000BC, the ancient Greek city of Thouria continues to be a marvel for Greek archaeologists, who recently uncovered a previously unknown theatre. As their excavation progresses ...

Credit: Parco archeologico di Pompei/Cover Images A newly excavated house decorated with frisky frescoes depicting erotic scenes has shed new light on life in Ancient Pompeii. The ‘House of Phaedra’ ...

Turkish archaeologists have uncovered an extraordinary find at the ancient Greek city of Alexandria Troas (“Alexandria of the Troad”; Greek: Αλεξάνδρεια Τρωάς; Turkish: Eski Stambul) in Çanakkale, a ...

A hoard of Persian gold coins - believed to be more than 2,500 years old - was unearthed by a team from the University of Michigan working at Notion, an ancient Greek city-state on the west coast ...

Records of the city have been lost to time as its distant past has faded away over the years - however, some shreds of its history remain. Ancient Greek historian Herodotus described the city’s ...

Archaeologists from the University of Michigan have recently discovered a hoard of Persian gold coins in the ancient Greek city-state of Notion, on the west coast of Anatolia in Turkey. The gold coins ...

Ortigia and Syracuse, Ortigia Dall’alto, Mαρκος, CC BY-SA 2.0/Wikimedia Commons The ancient city-state of Syracuse (Συράκουσαι), was a Greek colony established on the eastern coast of Sicily. The city ...

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