While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Most relics found there until now were from a long-abandoned Greek necropolis and lakeside ... of a Hellenistic monument that is probably a temple, carved out of calcarenite, a type of limestone.

The footpaths that link the isolated mountain settlements of Zagori offer some of the most spectacular hiking in the whole of ...

from one side right to the other, while the people are congregated.” If she did, he would repeal the taxes. The story goes that she took off her clothes, let down her long hair covering most of ...

Add that the venue is a cliff-side ... temple of the goddess Nature, the incarnation of beauty.” The German artist Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach wandered around the island in the early 1900s wearing a ...

The work of American architect Robert Mills, it comprised the same mammoth obelisk, but also included a series of ornate columns inspired by the architecture of Greek temples ... Officials deliberated ...

Around him lay two bows, a long ... Greek letters, he began excavations that continued until the Soviet invasion in December 1979. Shaped like a triangle, roughly a mile on each side, the city ...

It is no doubt that religious beliefs have shaped the way human societies have been organized throughout history, and temples have been used to show ... or destroyed over the years. On the bright side ...

Bristling with side-scan and multibeam sonar as well as ... “We like to picture shipwrecks as Greek temples on a hill—you know, very picturesque,” he told me. “But they’re not.

Opened near the end of the 19th century, Il Cimitero Monumentale is filled with graves, yes, but also Greek temples ... Travelers say it doesn't take long to run into some pretty moving graves ...