Eratosthenes became the first person to calculate the Earth's circumference with remarkable accuracy, a feat that stands as a ...

The so-called Ionian Revolt was the beginning of a series of events and war reprisals between Ancient Greeks and Persians.

On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games were reborn in Athens, 1,500 years after Roman Emperor Theodosius I banned them in 393 ...

BC ancient Greek General Themistocles was exonorated in a mock trial by the National Hellenic Museum in Chicago.

Runners can choose between a full marathon, a half marathon, or a shorter 10-kilometre route, all weaving through Palma’s sun ...

Planning a family trip to Greece? Of course, Athens will be on your itinerary. Here are the best things to do in Athens with ...

Under extreme metabolic conditions, like a marathon, the brain may turn to cellular fat stores to maintain function, ...

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 ancient Greece and Rome, you might assume that the ... The author recounts a local tale about a haunted field where the Battle of Marathon took place in 490 BCE. Here, Pausanias claims, the ...

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 ...

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 ...