Alexander the Great visited the city of Troy while on his campaign against the Persian Empire. What did he do while he was there?

During the Iron Age, the mysterious Tartessian people lived in southwest Spain. Little is known about them, but experts do ...

The ancient Turkish city of Hierapolis, now home to Pamukkale resorts, also has to the oldest "Gate to Hell" on Earth. This ...

Marriage in Ancient Greece was an important union and the wedding ceremony was a three-day celebration for family and friends.

It is believed to be the oldest ‘Gate to Hell’ on Earth and 2000 years later, it lies in ruins - yet visitors should still be wary. It is a passage once used for animal sacrifices to the Greek god of ...

It's known from historical accounts that the shrine was thought to be a "Gate to Hell" in ancient times, a powerful portal from which the flowed the toxic breath of Cerberus, a three-headed dog said ...

THE ancient Turkish city of Hierapolis hosts what is believed to be the oldest ‘Gate to Hell’ on Earth. It is a passage once ...

Mount Hekla in Iceland, known as 'the chimney of hell' by medieval Christians, has been considered a gateway to the ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The organized ...

Increased levels of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere would’ve caused immense crop failure, potentially leading to the “sacrifice ... of the worries of these ancient people—DNA suggests ...

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen—drawing on research of 60,000 years of volcanic activity derived from ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica—have re-contextualized an ancient object ...

When we think about animal sacrifice, ancient societies such as the Greeks come to mind. But why did they ritually slaughter animals? What did this do for their society? My husband and I follow ...