Among the Greek islands with the most beautiful and cleanest beaches, Samos stands out — particularly Potami Beach — as featured in a list published by Travel & Leisure. According to the American ...

Three tombs dating back thousands of years have been unearthed in an ancient Egyptian burial complex. The tombs of three ...

Samos, a legendary Greek island steeped in beauty, is found in the eastern Aegean Sea off the coast of Asia Minor (Asian ...

When did Homer, the famous poet of Greek history, really live? One would have to look at evidence from ancient documents and archaeology.

But the ancient Greeks certainly had numbers. In fact, they had what was in some ways a much more elegant system than the ...

Were these incredible historical figures actually people that don't exist? The jury's still out. Who are these historical ...

The tombs belong to the fourth century before Christ. Interest in the discovery has been heightened because the Greek philosopher Pythagoras was buried at Metapontum about 500 B. C., and ...

A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors. The complete spears made of spruce and pine are among the oldest known ...

In the quiet hills of Epirus in northwestern Greece, where a primordial breeze still rustles through the oak trees, the ancient oracle of Dodona once stood as a place of profound human yearning. Long ...

But it wasn’t until 1786, when William Jones, a British judge stationed in India, proposed a link among Latin, Greek and Sanskrit, that the idea of a common lingual ancestor was taken seriously.

In the new study, however, astronomers used the cutting-edge "Keck Planet Finder" (KPF) instrument as the W. M. Keck ...