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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

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 ...

On the limestone cliffs of the remote Greek island of Astypalaia, Dr. Andreas Vlachopoulos, an archaeologist, made a fascinating discovery: dick carvings. “They were what I would call triumphant ...

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 ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae bustled with merchants, farmers and families going about their daily lives. Unbeknownst to them, Mount Vesuvius, a ...