Over 2,300 years ago, a 20-year-old man was crowned king in a sprawling palace in Greece. He went on to build an empire that stretched to modern-day Afghanistan and left a legacy felt today. His name ...

The ancient Greek kingdom of Pylos is nowhere near as familiar in today’s popular consciousness as city-states with names like Corinth or Thebes, but it did get a shout-out from Homer in both the ...

One of the best-known images of the ancient Near East is an intriguing nineteenth-century color lithograph reconstructing the throne room of an Assyrian palace. Executed shortly after the ...

Archaeologists reopened the 2,300-year-old Palace of Aigai, the monumental site where Alexander the Great became king, after 16 years of restoration work, a photo shows. Giannis Papanikos AP Over ...