The Parthenon is an incredible example of ancient Greek architecture and while it is in ruins (comparatively speaking) today, ...

There's always been a deep-seated rejection of monarchy in Greece, favoring accountable, accessible leaders over distant, ...

Ugh, who knows. Other playwrights who might appear are Euripides, who wrote Medea, and Aeschylus, who wrote the Oresteia, the only complete trilogy of Greek theater that survived to the modern era.

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Each year, this ceremony -- called "Anastenaria" ("sighs" in Greek) -- attracts crowds of visitors. Considered a pagan ritual to honour the ancient Greek gods Dionysus and Artemis, the ancient ...

The fire walking ritual, held on the day of the Orthodox feast of Saint Constantine and Saint Helena on May 21, has been practised for over a century in four villages of the Greek region of Macedonia, ...

Under a cloud of incense smoke, a group of men and women in a village in northern Greece swayed slowly to the music before removing their shoes and rushing, barefoot, onto waiting embers.

On the fertile land of Shanxi, where the essence of Chinese civilization thrives, lie the most magnificent codes of ancient Chinese architecture. From the towering Buddhist temples to the ...