Despite initial impressions, ancient Greek temples were not built to impress 21st-century tourists; they were made to house ...

But the ancient Greeks certainly had numbers. In fact, they had what was in some ways a much more elegant system than the ...

Therapeutic sleep, known as “incubation,” played a vital role in ancient Greek medicine, according to a new study by George ...

Excavations in Paros, Greece, have uncovered a Hellenistic-era workshop with unfinished marble statues, including Aphrodite ...

Britannia is the national symbol of the UK and can be seen across the country on multiple statues or old pound sterling coins ...

Greece has filed a lawsuit over the alleged violation of a law for the protection of antiquities by what appeared to be a ...

From tastings with olive oil sommeliers to celebrating harvest season at family-run mills, here’s how to experience ...

The Parthenon's interior has long been seen as a bright marble space, a new 3D model of the temple shows otherwise.

Archaeologists working near the coastal village of Samikon have unearthed a monumental temple complex in the Western ...

Found at the Dodona oracle site in Epirus, more than 4,000 lead tablets reveal everyday concerns, from love and illness to ...

Excavators working at an ancient Catholic church in Italy recently found an even older religious symbol: the head of ... found in a garbage bag near the Greek city of Thessaloniki.

As STEPHEN G MILLER (professor at Berkeley) points out in his Ancient Greek Athletics, the distinction between 'professional' and 'amateur'. so often invoked to contrast modern with ancient athletics, ...