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Authorities on the Greek island of Crete have arrested six people allegedly involved in an antiquities smuggling operation.
The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...
Viking Ocean Cruises and Seabourn Cruise Line are very different cruise providers, even though both fall into the luxury cruise category. Seabourn is considered an ultra-luxury brand with ...
Greece celebrated the return of three Parthenon sculpture fragments from the Vatican Museums, intensifying its 40-year ...
The city which was the art capital of the Western and Mediterranean world for millennia still has much to offer…this time by ...
The ecumenical "donation" by the Vatican furthers a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of ...
Ancient Greeks developed sophisticated units of measurement ranging from measuring length, distance, volume, and weight of ...
A 2,000-year-old marble throne dedicated to Potamon, a revered rhetorician of Mytilene, has been highlighted by a 1908 ...
While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...
The lecture hall was discovered during excavations at Agrigento, the site of the largest ancient Greek settlement in Sicily. Photo by Thomas Lappi and Monika Trümper, FU Berlin, Institute of ...
In ancient Greece, education wasn’t limited to the mind — it included the body as well. Physical fitness and scholarly pursuits went hand-in-hand, a principle reflected in the number of gymnasiums ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...