This aerial view captures the historic Theater of Dionysus nestled on the southern slope of the Acropolis in Athens. The semicircular arrangement of stone seating unfolds in perfect symmetry around ...

From a 9,000-year-old precision-engineered hammer to evidence of the Trojan War and many more... The year's most captivating archaeological finds included an untouched Etruscan tomb, pristine Bronze ...

Ancient Rome is the pin-up empire of billionaires. Elon Musk. Peter Thiel. Mark Zuckerberg. All have publicly yearned for the return to an era when men were “real” men, women were “real” women, and ...

The "digital twin" of the House of Thiasus, with a reconstructed wooden ceiling Archaeological Park of Pompeii Among the ruins of Pompeii is a large villa known as the House of Thiasus. This year, ...

Archaeologists digitally reconstructed Pompeii’s residential towers using 3D models based on structural and visual evidence. The towers, once thought simple, reveal upper-level luxury dining spaces ...

Turns out a penthouse view has always been a status symbol. A new study suggests that some of Pompeii’s wealthiest citizens may have lived in homes crowned with towers, architectural features ...

I can't remember the first time I felt "immersed" in a videogame, but I can remember the first time I got stuck under a swimming pool float as a kid, scratching at a scabby foam ceiling roamed by ...

Introduction: The phytolith (plant silica) morphotype, Elongate dendritic, is used to indicate the presence of domesticated grasses (cereals) from the Pooideae subfamily, such as wheat and barley, in ...

The ruins of ancient temples, roads, a harbor and a cistern for collecting rainwater lie near Turkey’s western coast. Some ...

The temple of Dionysus, Teos. Credit: Carole Raddato / CC BY-SA 2.0 The ruins of Teos (Greek: Τέως), an ancient Greek city on Turkey’s western coast, have long remained untouched by modern ...