With the famed ruins of Pompeii looming large in people’s imaginations, many of Italy’s smaller and lesser-known ancient sites often are overlooked. One such place is Paestum, a long-ago Greek colony ...

What are we learning about the past? Here are three of our most recent eye-catching archaeology stories. →Ancient 'burial' mound on Greek island turns out to be much more unique →Construction near ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Paestum found the ruins of two sacred Greek temples built atop each other, photos show. Photo from the Italian Ministry of Culture On the edge of an ...

The UNESCO - listed city of Chersonesus, located on the southwestern part of the Crimean peninsula was an ancient Greek ...

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 ...

Entering the temple, ancient worshipers passed under several sets of watchful marble eyes. The stone statues once gazed across a bustling settlement. Millennia later, the fragmented figures are the ...

Archaeologists in Greece recently excavated the partially submerged ruins of an ancient building. Inside, they found coins, pottery and a statue of a god. Photo from the Ministry of Culture Partially ...