The most beautiful ancient Greek myth is the creation of the Aegean islands, and  particularly of Delos and the Cyclades.

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

At every level of government, authority figures are embracing once-extreme ideas, including that the Earth is flat or that ...

Instead, the study suggests, Deinosuchus belonged to an ancient lineage that split off ... when Deinosuchus lived, high global sea levels and a warm climate fed incredible growth within marshes ...

At the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea lies an incredible 7,000-year-old road, which once connected an ancient settlement to Korcula Island, in Croatia. The major discovery was made just off the ...

Most of us have heard the tale of Atlantis, the legendary island that sank beneath the waves in ancient Greek lore—but did you know Japan ... been built 2,000 to 3,000 years ago, back when the sea ...

Greece's coast guard said on Monday that it had recovered the bodies of two women and found 39 migrants on the island of Farmakonisi, following the sinking of a boat in the Aegean Sea. A rescue ...

Researchers found the older ancient Egyptian settlement while they were studying the Greek one. An unexpected discovery of mudbrick dating to the New Kingdom (circa 1550 to 1070 B.C.) revealed the ...

The tall, whitewashed complex is a speck about half-way up the precipitous mountain that plunges into the Aegean Sea. Except for a few small chapels scattered among the rocks, no other structure ...

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans ...