The ancient Greeks used olive oil not only as a staple food in daily life, but also as a medicinal substance that shaped ...

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a 2,400-year-old Ancient Greek Temple of Zeus in Limyra, solving a decades-old mystery.

This summer a team of archaeologists resumed their work on a site dating back to around 600BC, known for its three ...

History remembers kings and conquerors, but sometimes, it also remembers the destroyers. Among them stands Herostratus, a ...

The ancient Greek society was a complex mix of ingenuity, brutality, eccentricities and practices that you may define as cultural rites that often fall outside of contemporary expectations. Of the ...

Greece isn’t just a place, it’s a feeling. It’s where myths breathe through pine-covered hills, marble ruins glow under honey ...

Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...

The temporary structures will return next month—but in the meantime, visitors will enjoy rare unobstructed views of the ancient hilltop temple in Athens Cool Finds The marble sculpture, discovered at ...

Archaeologists have made a number of historic discoveries while excavating the ancient Greek City of Laodicea, which housed a ...

Contributing writer for The Prospect Zane Mills VanWicklen details how the Ancient Mediterranean pavilion in the new Princeton University Art Museum is a “step back in time.” ...

Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam (left) stands outside Parliament House in Canberra on 11 November 1975, ...