Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

Carl Sagan explains how Eratosthenes used shadows and simple math to prove the Earth isn’t flat—over 2,000 years ago!

Nemrut Dağ stands at a crossroads where Persia met Greece in the ancient world. Its remote location meant that it was not scrutinized by Greek and Latin authors. But the site’s glory was ...

The Milesian School was based in Miletus and produced three great thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient ...

“We know the names of many female artists and writers, but possess the works of few.” (p. 3) ...

Have you ever thought what it’s like to sip wine under the Mediterranean sun, covered by rolling hills and historic ruins?

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Plaster casts of an ancient Greek bust of Sappho, the poetess, are created in a workshop just south of Athens, Greece ... “Our work travels around the world,” says Maria Zafeiri, a caster ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

The Parthenon, a mid-5th-century temple atop the hill of the Acropolis, is dedicated to Athena, the Greek deity of wisdom and ...

Officials in the popular Mediterranean filming location are looking to reassure anxious producers over ongoing delays with rebate payments.

Banana traces in 3,000-years-olf Philistine teeth rewrite Iron Age trade map. Illustration. (photo credit: Rushay. Via Shutterstock) Aren Maeir of Bar-Ilan University and Philipp Stockhammer of ...