Greece has some strict laws in protecting its ancient sites, and they won't let anything get in their way, not even footwear.

A list of the ten most iconic flowers of Greece is easy to create, since Greece is home to some of the most spectacular ...

Shared appetizers known as Greek meze is a tradition that has kept communities and friends together, shaping what it means to be Greek.

Just about everyone in Turkey's ancient city was a wine drinker - whether or not they belonged to the upper classes or the ...

Cyprus gained independence from British rule in 1960, but Greek-Turkish Cypriot tensions led to violence, with Turkey intervening in 1974 after a Greek-backed coup and seizing over a third of the ...

Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were not just experienced visually ... For instance, according to Platt, Greek men would scent their bodies before they gathered to drink at the symposium, a social ...

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 ...

In modern times, diet refers to food and drink. In ancient times, however, the idea of diet was more expansive. Our word "diet" comes from the ancient Greek word diaita. This could refer to what ...

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.

Ancient city The ruins of Megiddo are now in a national park about 18 miles (30 kilometers) southeast of Haifa. Megiddo was a strategically important city at a crossroads on trade and military ...

Melbourne’s Hellenic Museum has just added a stunning centerpiece to its Heroes and Hoplites: Warfare in Ancient Greece exhibition: a hoplite panoply dating between 400 and 200 BCE, on loan from ...