One of the great statues of antiquity has been connected to its likely birthplace by analysis of its marble. The Colossus of the Naxians on the Greek island of Delos once stood about 9 metres tall, ...

Researchers in Bulgaria think the artifact could offer a window into ancient tensions around the rise of Christianity. By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from London Archaeologists in Bulgaria made an ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have accidentally stumbled across a marble statue of the Greek god Hermes in what seems like the most unlikely of places: an sewer in the ancient city of Heraclea Sintica.

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed a marble statue that may depict Hermes, the Greek messenger god. It was found in an ancient sewer, where it appears to have been buried for some 2,000 years.

A lot of the time, great discoveries happen by a complete accident. At least, that was the case in Bulgaria last week when a crew of archaeologists unexpectedly unearthed a centuries-old artifact ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...