Further examinations have indicated that the column was possibly functioning as a Greek altar. If the assertions are true, ...

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered the oldest known Greek marble altar in the western Mediterranean, revealing the ...

Underwater archaeologists found a Roman breakwater made from recycled architectural fragments off the coast of Bacoli in ...

A 61-year-old tourist is facing a decade behind bars in Greece after stealing an ancient marble column. The German man was arrested at the port of Patras after allegedly attempting to smuggle the ...

The team from the Institute of Archaeology of Mérida (IAM, CSIC-Government of Extremadura), led by Esther Rodríguez González ...

Authorities in Greece are investigating after a 2,000-year-old marble statue was discovered wrapped in a trash bag and discarded among garbage bins this week. Police in Thessaloniki, the second ...

Construction workers in the historic centre of Rome have made an incredible discovery of a marble head likely to have belonged to a female divinity.

Archaeologists have uncovered an unusually large marble lion gargoyle belonging to one of Sicily's ancient Greek temples. Only nine other ancient Greek temples in southern Italy and Sicily are ...

Several fragments of marble with Greek inscriptions — one translating to “synagogue” — were also uncovered.