Cleopatra persuaded Mark Antony to order the execution of her sister Arsinoe IV on the steps of one of antiquity’s greatest temples, breaking the sacred law of sanctuary and leaving behind a mystery t ...

It was one of the world’s great cradles of civilisation and the largest excavated archaeological site on Earth. But few ...

After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world Archaeologists first explored Eretria in the late nineteenth ...

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Ruined castles, buried cities, ancient temples... The Old World is strewn with ancient ruins that tell the countless stories of past civilisations. From the Mediterranean to the far north, these ...