From Greek-is.com: “The education system in ancient Greece was regarded as a foundational pillar of society, preparing ...

Ornate Mosaics From Ancient Greek Bath House Depicts Various Scenes of Marine Life Not Typical to the Region Archaeologists ...

Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

Evidence show that confession might actually have an origin in the pre-Christian religious customs of ancient Greece.

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...

Over 2,000 years later, travelers can still see his legacy in countries as far afield as Egypt, Turkey and Pakistan — as well ...

A little further south, at the foot of Mount Olympus (the most sacred site in Ancient Greece) is Dion, where Alexander made sacrifices to the god Zeus before setting out for Persia. And east of ...

Nearly a century ago, Danish archaeologists traveled to the site of the ancient city of Hama ... have been found across Central Europe, in Italy, Greece and the Iberian Peninsula, and further on in ...

While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece, it's this one in central Athens that garners the most attention. In fact, it's routinely referred to simply as "The ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...