Myth, history, and the parts historians skip.
The Valley of the Temples park says its third campaign at Case Montana has exposed walls and building traces from a 5th-century BC district of Akragas, destroyed in the Carthaginian siege of 406 BC.
17 Oct 2026Greece's culture minister received 22 antiquities from Israel's ambassador in Athens on 13 October 2026. Lina Mendoni said it was the first time Israel had returned antiquities to Greece.
16 Oct 2026The Izmir Metropolitan Municipality says excavators at ancient Smyrna's agora found three Late Antiquity rooms and new wall paintings, while a Roman water channel was traced for about 150 metres.
14 Oct 2026Excavators at Troy say they are uncovering an agora in front of the Troy VI south gate. They say settlers revived it 80 to 90 years after the Bronze Age city was abandoned, and named their town Ilios/Ilion.
10 Oct 2026Three campaigns in, the Normale's Agrigento dig yields first-century BC fresco fragments beside the ancient assembly hall — and a central question about the building's identity that the announcement leaves open.
7 Oct 2026A Roman ship sank with dozens of statues and a device called the world's oldest computer. More than 125 years after sponge divers found the wreck, more of the cargo is thought to lie on the seabed, and in 2017 the team said it believed at least seven life-size statues could be hidden nearby.
6 Oct 2026Greece's Culture Ministry has completed major projects at Nicopolis and is pursuing a UNESCO bid, while the Great Theatre's third phase is funded and under way. Here is what is done and what is funded.
4 Oct 2026Headlines say Turkey has confirmed a 9 km tunnel network under Hagia Sophia. The minister said nine kilometres is being spoken of. About one kilometre has been surveyed. The full file: what was said, what has been mapped and what the evidence supports.
20 Sep 2026