For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas — or Father Spyridon, as he’s affectionately called — has prayed, worked and ...

Bright white buildings, sunlit hills, delicious cuisine, and ancient ruins scattered throughout the city all make Athens one of the most incredible cities in Europe. The capital of Greece is a ...

Aiolou Street in Athens is arguably the navel of modern Greece. A street around which the city and an entire nation began to ...

A popular exhibit at the Putnam Museum is seeing some improvements. The Black Earth Big River Exhibit shows an ancient sea ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

There are many ancient ruins available to see in Europe, but when traveling to visit them, travel expert Rick Steves ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Prehistoric insects encased in amber reveal a terrifying evolutionary road that dead-ended sometime after the mid-Cretaceous ...

bronze coins minted under Greek rulers, weapons aplenty, and even ancient furniture, eager archaeologists hope to rummage the plunder to understand just why this building existed. Active during ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

The layer with Egyptian and Greek pottery fragments described in the latest study is among several layers that date from after 732 B.C., when records indicate Megiddo was conquered by the Neo ...

Per Omnia, the building would have fit several hundred people. Many ancient Greek cities had a bouleuterion, which hosted civic ceremonies and sometimes cultural performances. Teos’ bouleuterion ...

The kylix for drinking wine was an essential part of ancient Greek symposiums. Photo of red-figure kylix c. 480 BCE. Credit: Bibi Saint-Pol. Public Domain The kylix was an ancient Greek shallow ...