The story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town ...

After years of excavating, archaeologists in Cyprus have uncovered a rare, Roman-era floor mosaic almost 2,000 years old. Scenes of chariot races in a Roman hippodrome, an open-air stadium for ...

Buried under flood-water silt for centuries, the site of the ancient hippodrome chariot race track at Olympia in Greece has been located by a team of German scientists using sophisticated ...

The Roman Amphitheater and the hippodrome in the ancient Israeli coastal city of Caesarea have been sold off, in secret, to a mysterious overseas holding company by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate ...

This ancient Greek sanctuary had the first stadium ever constructed, and housed a giant statue of Zeus — one of the ancient Wonders of the World.

Names in Greek The mosaic shows four chariots with horses and a driver, or charioteer, and appears to show four phrases of a race. There’s Greek lettering above each chariot. That’s important too.

The site of the ancient hippodrome course in Olympia, where the emperor Nero competed for Olympian laurels, has been discovered. Pausanias, a travel writer of the ancient world, described this ...

The Cyprus Antiquities Department has uncovered a 36-foot mosaic floor in Cyprus that dates back to the 4th century. This stunning piece depicts four chariot races in the hippodrome.