During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great ...

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government ...

Surrounded by the Cyclopean walls, the ancient Greek city of Tiryns predated Mycenae and later became part of the Mycenaean ...

Long before Pericles' Golden Age, an aristocrat named Cleisthenes laid the true foundation for Athenian democracy.

The loss of the ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge has been mourned for centuries—but Julius Caesar may not ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Gortyna on the Greek island of Crete have made an unusual discovery: a life-size statue depicting a pig. The rare find, uncovered during July and August ...

In August, the first 38 coins – 37 Roman and one Greek – arrived to form the core of the Dr. David Menchell Coin Collection, ...

There are arguably few ancient thinkers as influential in their domains as Socrates, Aristotle, and Confucius. Emerging from different cultures or epochs in time, these three remarkable teachers ...

Prologue I spent about eight days in late September-early October 2025 with my son and his family traveling in Greece. We started with Kefalonia / ...

In a social media post, the Greek culture ministry praised the "sensitivity and courage" of the woman who returned the artifact.