A digital map of ancient Greece and the known ancient world as traveled by ancient geographers has been created by researchers at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The map lets users ...

Dolphins in frescoes on the bathroom wall of the Palace of Knossos on Crete dating to 1,600 BC suggest ... Without a doubt, dolphins held an irresistible charm for people in ancient Greece, one of the ...

Dramatic new discoveries in the ancient ... Greek cultural influences, particularly at the Mediterranean capital of Alexandria, home to some of the finest scholars of the Hellenistic world ...

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

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

The lecture hall of an "impressive high school" from an ancient Greek settlement was recently ... currently known grammar school in the ancient world offered such a lecture hall.

China war inevitable? Perhaps that isn’t the lesson leaders should be taking from the ‘History of the Peloponnesian War.’ ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

Perched on a hillside on Lefkada, an island off the west coast of Greece, the structure has been ... began around the 4th century B.C.E., when ancient Lefkada was experiencing economic prosperity.

Built during the year 550 BC, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was one of the most magnificent and largest temples in the ancient world, which was dedicated to the Greek goddess Artemis.

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