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

Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it ...

An initiative backed by British naturalist David Attenborough aims to protect the seas in seven countries, including Greece.

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about ...

The modern name comes from a Greek version of the ancient Egyptian name Abedju. The size of the 3,600-year-old limestone tomb chamber (shown from below and above) suggests that it was likely ...

What is a democracy anyway? In the current political climate, the media and politicians throw around many terms. Words like ...

Among the claims made were that Jesus never existed, that the Gospels are later fabrications, and that the Resurrection ...

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It wasn't long ago that, every Easter and Christmas, an onslaught of articles and TV specials would appear in places like Time, National Geographic ... did not speak Greek. Though each of these ...

A single image from the 1860s, posted in 2017 in the Facebook group “Old Photos of Thessaloniki,” sent ripples through local ...

The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.

Pope Francis, 88, died Monday morning at the Vatican. Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Farrell was seen sealing the door to ...