The Acropolis of Athens is one of the most visited world sites, but what stood on top of it before the construction of the ...

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece.

The discovery of a 2000-year-old headless statue from the Hellenistic period has prompted Greek police to investigate.

Ancient statues have also been found in trash before in other parts of Europe. In 2023, a Roman-era statuette of Venus was discovered in a trash dump in Rennes, France. That same year, ancient bronze ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Once you're inside the Acropolis Museum, look for the famous caryatids – a collection of marble statues that were replaced by copies on the Erechtheion for the purpose of ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The organized ...

Just last month, construction workers installing natural gas pipelines near Athens found a Roman-era statue of Hermes buried upright near the Acropolis. And a few weeks ago, the city of ...