In 1761, Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of ...

Belisarius is the much underrated military commander of the Byzantine Empire who helped reclaim huge swathes of the Roman ...

A magnificent sculpted golden comb made by a Greek sculptor is one of the great treasures of the Hermitage Museum ...

Archaeologists in Italy have uncovered the ancient Basilica of Vitruvius in Fano, confirming a long-debated Roman structure.

King Felipe, his wife Letizia, and Queen Sofia attended the funeral service for ex-Princess of Greece Irene in Athens ...

Byzantine art had a significant impact on the Italian Renaissance and the evolution of the cultural boom of the early modern ...

Iakovos was a champion of civil and human rights who showed his support to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with his actions.

In the mid 1970s, PM Konstantinos Karamanlis proposed Latinizing Greek letters and making the Greek language phonetic.

Koula Sophianou, the newly appointed Ambassador of Cyprus to China, presented her credentials to President Xi Jinping.

Police in Greece seized 26 Hellenistic spearheads in Northern Greece during an investigation of valuable historical artifacts ...

The sinking of "Himara" on January 19, 1947 off Evia resulted in a loss of at least 383 people and has been dubbed as the ...

Henry Miller, one of the great American writers, was enamored with Greece and his favorite book he wrote is a travelogue of ...