A headless and armless small marble Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period turned up in the trash in Thessaloniki.

An approximately 3,500-year-old settlement was discovered in Egypt in Kom el-Negus, located about 27 miles west of Alexandria ...

A number of ancient Greek artifacts are to be auctioned by Christie's, including a Cycladic figure and a kylix, estimated to ...

They say that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Some treasures are more surprising—and more valuable—than others, ...

Earlier this month, a 32-year-old Greek man brought something remarkable to his local police station: a statue of a woman ...

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

Lead pollution started peaking when the Romans took over the Aegean coastline.

Nugus, north of Lake Mariout in Egypt, documented in research led by Sylvain Dhennin and his team, challenges the widespread ...

Experts believe the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period (320-30 BC), a time of significant artistic and cultural growth following Alexander the Great's conquests. This era witnessed a ...

Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

President Donald Trump, with his usual bombast, has declared that his second term will be a new “golden age” for the country. Some critics have argued the US actually seems to be in something ...