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

The ancient Greek language and culture spread through Africa following the conquests of Alexander the Great on the continent.

On the borderlands of early civilizations, people who considered one another alien met in moments of trade, warfare or simple ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Tourists at the ...

The graffiti was discovered under a thick stone slab, suggesting it was deliberately hidden and not a product of chance.

THE Athens of the fourth and fifth centuries before Christ, which may properly enough be called the Periclean Athens, has been an extinct community for more than two thousand years, and yet it is more ...

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

Archaeologists have made an important discovery while exploring Salamis, a small island off the coast of Greece near Athens where a now-sunken city once stood. Scientists found a partially submerged ...

Something unexpected happened in the summer of 2021. Suddenly, out of nowhere — and from locations near and far — everyone seemed to be heading for Athens. And why not? Whether by necessity or ...

Thousands of years before Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert got under President Trump's skin, ancient Greek and Roman poets ...