In the 4th century BC in Syracuse, an oracle told a potter his son would be a scourge and a tyrant of the Greek city.

The ancient world was full of strange creatures and legends, the most famous being the Blemmyes. Historians like Pliny the ...

A team of Polish archaeologists working along the coast of modern-day Libya has identified what appears to be a concentration ...

Egypt is set to import at least 1 million barrels a month of Libyan oil to compensate for a halt in Kuwaiti crude supplies ...

Archaeologists from the University of Warsaw uncover a massive ancient shipwreck and submerged port infrastructure in Libya.

Archaeologists uncover ancient shipwrecks and submerged harbor remains near the 2,300-year-old Greek city of Ptolemais in ...

Archaeologists working off the coast of Libya have identified an underwater “ship graveyard” near the ancient Greek city of Ptolemais. The seabed is littered with debris that points to repeated ...

Commanders and commentators may reference ancient texts, such as the Book of Ezekiel, which prophesied a war against the biblical kingdom of Israel, or the Book of Revelation. However, the apocalyptic ...

Polish archaeologists working in Libya have identified a stretch of seabed near ancient Ptolemais that points to multiple shipwrecks from antiquity. Ptolemais was one of the largest ancient Greek ...

Researchers have discovered an extraordinary underwater cache of shipwrecks across 328 feet of seafloor in northeastern Libya, illuminating a once-thriving ancient port. The discovery raises a ...

Archaeologists say they have discovered what appears to be a “ship graveyard” beneath the sea off the coast of Tolmeita in eastern Libya. A Polish archaeological team found fragments of sunken ship ...