Ancient history

More than 50,000 people have visited the exhibition at the Museum Cycladic "Hygeia: Health, Sickness and Treatment from Homer to Galen," that kicked off at the Museum of Cycladic Art on November 19. The display, set to run until May 31, has already met with a great deal of interest.

The latest excavation season has ended in the ancient city of Stratonikeia in the western province of Mu?la's Yata?an district. Professor Bilal Sö?üt, head of the excavations, said they had worked for some six months in 2014 with 50 academics and workers.

The mayor of Gaziantep and her aides have drawn the ire of social media users after pictures emerged showing them stepping on unique mosaics excavated from the ancient Roman city of Zeugma during a press presentation event.

A large marble door and the head of a sphinx found inside the ancient tomb at Amphipolis were moved to a nearby museum on Friday.

The door, which is in two pieces, and the marble sphinx head will be cleaned up and preserved.

The removal of the door from the tomb frees up space for the archaeologists to work in.

Archaeologists digging at a tomb dating to the era of Alexander the Great in ancient Amphipolis in northern Greece have found the missing head of one of the two sphinxes guarding the entrance of the grave.

According to a statement yesterday by the Culture Ministry, the head, which was found inside the tomb’s third chamber, belongs to the statue on the eastern side of the entrance.

Side, an ancient site that has hosted different civilizations, boasts everything you could hope to find on a vacation, from natural sites to ruins

Excavations around the Hecatomnus Mausoleum in the western province of Muğla’s Milas district have unearthed a written stela that dates back over two millennia.

Archaeologists should know on Tuesday or Wednesday whether a third figure is depicted in the mosaic found in the tomb being excavated in Ancient Amphipolis, according to a top Culture Ministry official.

The dishes of the Roman era are being served at a restaurant opened in Antalya by a Japanese academic who was inspired by the Galen of Pergamon in preparing the popular dishes

An imposing mosaic of a man driving a chariot has been uncovered in the largest antique tomb ever found in Greece, in Amphipolis in northern Macedonia, the culture ministry said on Sunday.

Tiny pieces of white, black, blue, red, yellow and grey create a picture of a chariot drawn by two white horses, driven by a bearded man wearing a crown of laurel leaves.