The gold and silver mines of ancient Greece produced the metals needed to forge empires and lay the foundations of Western ...

The artifacts reveal the harsh working conditions in ancient Egyptian gold mines under the rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

Archaeologists found an ancient Greek tomb with gold artifacts that was looted and reused as ritual site in Roman times, photos show. Photo from Greece’s Ministry of Culture and Sports Walking ...

The carob seed which became the modern carats shows how ancient Greeks devised ingenious ways to ensure fairness in trade.

One artifact was popular among Greek aristocrats, suggesting the burial site belonged to someone with high social status, officials said.

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered a monumental ancient tomb that was ... repurposed as a healing shrine. Artifacts pointing to its later use include a gold signet ring of Apollo with ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

Egypt’s State Information Service also shared photos of the tomb’s artifacts in a March 21 Facebook post. A gold ring found ... of graves from the ancient Greek and Roman eras, officials ...