Archaeologists in Greece have discovered an ancient sculptor's workshop which may provide a rare glimpse into what daily life was like during the Hellenistic period. Teams found the 3,000-year-old ...

Athens-based independent scholar Demetrius Savvides has shown that in Amphipolis, northern Greece, where the Kastas Monument ...

While traveling the Greek world in the 2nd century CE, the geographer Pausanias visited the statue of Zeus at Olympia. The ...

Two recently discovered ancient gold rings set with garnets reveal how Greek trends and customs became part of life in ...

Ioannis Kolettis, later Greek Prime Minister, formalised this longing in his political program—the Μεγάλη Ιδέα—a revivalist ...

An ancient vase discovered on Mykonos redrew the history of the Trojan War, which has captivated the imaginations of people ...

Off the Greek island of Alonissos in the eastern Aegean Sea, volunteer divers grab decaying plastic bottles, a tire and a ...

A surge of people converting to Orthodox Christianity is helping local parishes here buck the national trend of declining ...

Ancient Athens was a vibrant and dynamic society, famous for producing great works of art, philosophy, and culture.

In ancient Greek religion and culture, Athena, daughter of Zeus, reigns as the patron goddess of heroic endeavors, ...

Never before had women enjoyed ... to Democedes, a Greek physician at the Persian court, who successfully removed it. The queen went on to live a normal life and bore several children, including ...

“He believed motherhood to be the most important function of freeborn women,” wrote Greek historian Xenophon ... above all—even if affording children may be a problem. According to academic ...