Diogenes Lantern in Plaka, Athens Strolling through Plaka in Athens is a memorable experience. Our friends, Doris ...

The city of Iskenderun, also known as Alexandretta, in todays Turkey, was originally founded by Alexander the Great.

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...

Was Cleopatra the cause of the conflict between these two consuls, both eager to become the masters of Rome? Historians are ...

Archaeologists in the ancient Greek city of Perge, Turkey, have discovered five Roman statues, including Aphrodite and Eros.

Athens, Greece - In a historic move, Greek lawmakers have elected Constantine Tassoulas, a former parliament speaker and a ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 ... AG Leventis professor emeritus of ...

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP ... by a flourishing of art and culture following Alexander the Great’s conquests. Archaeologists sent the statue for further examination. It will ultimately ...

Police said experts determined the piece dates to the Hellenistic era, a period roughly between 320 and 30 B.C. that was marked by a flourishing of art and culture following the conquests of Alexander ...

Earlier this month, a 32-year-old Greek man brought something remarkable to his local police station: a statue of a woman draped in flowing cloth, missing its arms and head. He’d found it encased in a ...