The Parthenon may be the world's most famous Greek temple, but if you really want to know what the Acropolis was once like, then you should leave Greece and head over to Sicily. The Valley of the ...

ATHENS, Greece — After a decade-long facelift, the ancient Greek temple of Athena Nike is back up, patched up and unfettered on the Acropolis. The slender marble building first erected in the 5th ...

Excavations at the ancient city of Paestum in the province of Salerno have uncovered a wealth of well-preserved terracotta figurines offering insights into the religious and cultural life of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The archaeological finds kept coming for a team of 50 researchers on the Greek island of Evia. But the kicker may have been ...

Ancient Greeks living in Sicily built their sacred temples to face the rising sun, new research suggests. Almost all of the temples constructed on the island of Sicily during its Greek period over ...

ATHENS – Archaeologists excavating a hilltop sanctuary on the Aegean Sea island of Kythnos have discovered “countless” pottery offerings left by ancient worshippers over the centuries, Greece's ...

Archaeologists have unearthed two "exceptional" temples that are estimated to be 2,400 years old in a historic ancient city in southern Italy. According to a press release from the Italian Ministry of ...

Archeologists have discovered a lost ancient Greek temple dedicated to the goddess of war, after translating a newly found case of 2,500-year-old graffiti. Among over 2,000 remnants of ancient Greek ...

Scientists had been puzzled by the discovery of more recent Greek inscriptions at the ancient Sumerian temple of Girsu, in the modern-day town of Tello. Now, British Museum archaeologists believe a ...

A Greek temple found in Gloucestershire has a stunning garden with hidden tunnels and lakes offering a slice of the Mediterranean country where guests can even stay the night. The awe-inspiring Greek ...