The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

Dr Thomas Strasser of Providence College, Rhode Island says “This is the first palaeolithic art ever found in Greece and it’s ...

Demeter was one of the twelve Olympian gods believed by the ancient Greeks to rule over the cosmos. She was the sister of Zeus and patron goddess of agriculture. She was commonly depicted wearing a ...

April 22, Earth Day is celebrated once again as over one billion people help the Earth recover from the ravages of ...

Olympus in northern Greece, for instance, or the legendary cave on Crete’s Mt. Ida where the goddess Rhea concealed the infant Zeus from his father, Cronus, to prevent him from being eaten. There are ...

The 1.6-kilometre cave has over 1,000 carved figures, both animals and stylised feminine forms. Scientists have dated these to between 26,000 and 35,000 years ago, the time of the ancient ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros into the walls, a fabulous prehistoric menagerie that ...

The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It was a long stretch of time that spanned from ...