In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

Costa Navarino, in Greece's southwest Peloponnese, is opening for the season with new deluxe villas to rent, new activities ...

Ancient Greek philosophers debated the Milky Way’s nature, with some attributing it to celestial fires and others viewing it as a dense cluster of distant stars. Credit: Ale RaFlo, CC BY-SA 4.0 via ...

The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It was a long stretch of time that spanned from ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

In ancient Greece, people used curse tablets (katadesmoi) to call upon chthonic deities to bring misfortune or bind adversaries. Credit: Pankratos, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The ancient ...

The layer with Egyptian and Greek pottery fragments described in the latest study is among several layers that date from after 732 B.C., when records indicate Megiddo was conquered by the Neo ...

He is not a king, or indeed royalty, but in Athens' folklore, he might as well be. Rehhagel took over as Greece national football coach in 2001 and was immediately on the receiving end of a 5-1 ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...

The International Olympic Academy (IOA) at Ancient Olympia will become the centre of attention ... the president of the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) Isidoros Kouvelos and Greek IOC member Spyros ...

The Greek municipality of Tenea boasts a rich ancient history—and the archaeological artifacts to prove it. Finds in the region have long hinted at a once-thriving settlement, with the latest ...

Ancient Greece gave us many things, from mythology to democracy by way of the Olympics, but if I recall my (very) old primary-school project correctly, one thing Archimedes and pals never got ...