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

Ancient Greek trireme warships, which had three banks of oarsmen, were so effective that they enabled the rise of Athens as a ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered for decadent ... or exalting the social values of the aristocracy from whose ranks most guests were drawn. The word skolion means “sideways ...

Every four years, ancient Olympians evaluated by ten highly trained judges faced off in the mind-numbing heat of southern Greece ... it “stripped away social rank,” leaving the competitors ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The organized ...

Take Greek mythology, for example: those stories are timeless because we constantly refer to myths and stories of Ancient Greece to make sense of contemporary events. From Fate & Fabled ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Feeling overwhelmed by all the ancient archaeological sites? For a contemporary palette cleanser, head to the Tomato Industrial Museum, a renovated canning factory from the ...

In this Aug. 4 X post, for example, a user stated that during the original Olympics held in ancient Greece, women were not allowed to compete in or even attend any events: Snopes' research found ...

Discoveries of ancient artifacts are relatively common in Greece, often unearthed during construction projects. A headless statue believed to be 2,000 years old has been found inside a black ...

A yearslong construction project for a new subway system in Thessaloniki, Greece, has unveiled thousands of ancient artifacts, many of which have been incorporated into the metro station's design ...

The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.) was fought between Athens and Sparta—the two leading city-states of ancient Greece—and their respective allies. An aerial view of the Notion archaeological ...

Trevor Van Damme receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving ...