The economy of Ancient Athens was more than just silver coins - it was an early model of a financial empire. With an extensive trade network and a reliance on imported grain, Athens developed ...

Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

In ancient times, the mountaintops of Greece held the shrines and ritual sites of the gods. Now, they’re astonishingly ...

A model dressed as a bride and a man as an ancient Greek warrior, pose before a military parade to commemorate the start of ...

Athens, in Attica (a province of central Greece) is the most famous of all ancient Greek cities, both politically and culturally. The pinnacle of its glory was in the mid-fifth century BC ...

During a search conducted last year between Oct. 7 and 11, a team of underwater archaeologists unearthed a sweeping port in the ancient Mediterranean ... release from the Greek Ministry of Culture.

Recorded, and probably rewritten by the historian Thucydides, it is one of the primary sources on which our understanding of ancient Athens is based and provides a unique insight into just how ...