Seven months after the fall of Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad, FRANCE 24’s Wassim Nasr gained rare access to sites ...

At the edge of the Mediterranean, off the coast of modern-day Alexandria, an international team has recovered 22 immense ...

Pi, represented by the symbol π, is one of the most famous and important constants in mathematics. It is defined as the ratio ...

Archaeologists recover 22 massive blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, bringing parts of the ancient wonder back to the surface for the first time in centuries.

A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light on the formation of the ancient Egyptian state.

Explore the mystique of the 7 Wonders of The Ancient World, from the towering Pyramids to the legendary Lighthouse of Alexandria.

Divers have spent decades exploring Greece's ancient Antikythera wreck. The latest expedition found relics and retrieved ...

For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of classical beauty.

Last December, at the height of Greece’s olive harvest season, two men drove a stolen white truck to the Glyfada mill in a small town not far from Kalamata. After idling the truck for a ...

The underground cemeteries, nearly 2,000 years old, hold some of the earliest evidence of Christian faith, belief in the ...

In ancient Greece, kissing was not considered strictly romantic or intimate; rather, kissing was a often a greeting between ...

Modern air conditioning isn’t the only way to keep cool in the summer. For generations, people have used their ...