An ancient fifth-century Roman prison discovered in Greece contains harrowing graffiti on the prison floor. Located in Corinth, Greece, the Greek-language pleas that remain etched into the prison’s ...

A graffiti made by a shepherd in ancient Greece has helped archaeologists uncover a long-standing mystery about the history of the iconic Acropolis of Athens. The Parthenon is a world-renowned ...

A mysterious example of ancient Greek graffiti may reveal the existence of a lost temple at the iconic Acropolis of Athens, a pair of researchers have proposed in a study. The Acropolis—an ancient ...

A Roman prison, described as a "lawless place," has been identified thanks to a collection of disturbing ancient graffiti, a study reported. The site, located at the archaeological site of Corinth in ...

Graffiti of gladiators from Pompeii at the Naples National Archaeological Museum | Darren Puttock, Flickr // CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Graffiti from centuries and even millennia ago can reveal the grievances, ...

Hundreds of graffiti messages engraved into stone in the ancient city of Aphrodisias, in modern-day Turkey, have been discovered and deciphered, revealing what life was like there over 1,500 years ago ...

One thing about humans is that we love to make silly (and inappropriate) doodles. There's graffiti basically everywhere, worldwide — and it isn't some new phenomenon that arose with the invention of ...

Wall plaster etchings buried by Mount Vesuvius show that centuries before “Kilroy was here,” “Hyacinthus was here” was here first. He was lurking around the streets of ancient Herculaneum, carving his ...