Study reveals how olive oil shaped Greek mythology, daily life, and philosophy for 7,000 years, from ancient Crete to ...

The Batrachomyomachia (“The Battle of Frogs and Mice”) is the only surviving complete  ancient Greek epic parody of Homer's ...

Take a virtual tour of the Acropolis of Athens, one of the most important archaeological sites in the world. Explore the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, and the Temple of Athena Nike, which stand as ...

The Odeon of Herodes Atticus, located at the foot of the Acropolis and one of Greece's most famous ancient theatres, will ...

In an ancient monastery behind huge medieval battlements in a hilltop town just south of Rome, 10 monks are striving to keep alive a 1,600-year-old spiritual tradition against increasing odds.

On the Athenian side was a rather colourful strategos, or general. This relatively young man's name was Alcibiades, and his ...

A new lighting system was unveiled at the Acropolis on Wednesday that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said would serve to illuminate the democratic principles of ancient Greece as well as the ...

As a Navy meteorologist, I couldn’t come across a better discovery than the world’s first meteorological weather station. The ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Greek city of Phanagoria on Russia's Taman Peninsula have uncovered the first concrete evidence of classical theater in the Black Sea colony. The discovery—a ...

Discover the fascinating origins of Indo-European languages and the ancient Proto-Indo-European tongue that connects them all ...

This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...