On a tiny island off Sicily’s west coast, a huge pool long ago displayed the star-studded reflections of the gods. Scientists have long thought that an ancient rectangular basin, on the island of ...

Pottery shards, coins, and bones can survive for millennia beneath the soil, but the scents of antiquity typically escape archaeological recovery. Now, for the first time, an interdisciplinary team of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A huge basin on a tiny island off the coast of Sicily, long thought to have been an ancient harbor, was actually a sacred ...

A huge basin on a tiny island off the coast of Sicily, long thought to have been an ancient harbor, was actually a sacred freshwater pool surrounded by Phoenician temples and aligned to the stars, ...

Context counts for the museumgoer, as much as for the archaeologist. Its importance to understanding ancient art is illustrated by the extraordinary sculpture of a young man, excavated by the Italian ...

For the length of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the British Museum is displaying a supreme memorial to the ancient Olympiad. Unique: The Motya Charioteer on temporary display at the British Museum ...