Ancient Greece is where the first form of direct democracy was developed. It was called demokratia, literally meaning "rule ...

Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...

Introduction Europeans did not think we would find out about our black human species that inhabited Europe before the arrival of the Caucasians from the Caucasus Mountains in Central Asia .

This is the fourth installment of Edmonds resident Nathaniel Brown’s recent travels to Greece. You can read part 1 here, part ...

The National Archaeological Museum is set to host the largest bronze vessel discovered in Greece, the “Krater of the Lord ...

The bronze artifacts may have served as coffin handles for a burial in what is now Israel, but the true nature of the find ...

The Odeon of Herod Atticus recently opened the 70th season of the annual Athens Epidaurus Festival, a cherished annual ...

Among the finds are 34 clay votive offerings, weights for looms, and gold and bronze jewelry, which indicate the ritual significance of the area. More than 100 coins from ancient cities, minted in ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in southern Greece, the latest ...