A firefifghter searches for pockets of embers and digs them out at the forest fire on the Saalfelder Höhe, near ...

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 ...

Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country and alongside Mesopotamia was a part of the Fertile Crescent which is ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — For visitors to Athens, the ancient Odeon of Herod Atticus is the must-see theater at the foot of the Acropolis. Artists revere it for the majestic stage where legends have ...

AP An ancient theater in Greece opens for its final season before undergoing a 3-year restoration To tourists, it’s the ancient theater at the foot of the Acropolis ...

Why are dice cubes? Okay, nerds, yes, some are tetrahedra, or dodecahedra, or icosahedra, or whatever else your TTRPG calls for – but the point is, they’re all regular, symmetrical, perfectly ...

Comet the Super-Horse has a long history in DC Comics, yet he hasn’t extensively appeared in years. Given what that history includes, we’re okay with the thought of never seeing this guy again.

Okay, so Troy gets this free giant luxury horse from Greece. Okay, they left it right outside the city gates,” Colbert said. “Isn’t that great of the Greeks? Okay? They fight for 10 years.

Greece bans high heels at ancient sites. Sri Lanka prohibits selfies with Buddha. Germany penalizes running out of gas on the autobahn. Poland bans Winnie the Pooh in playgrounds. Traveling the world?

“We trust each other and we like each other a lot, so we can go to the scarier places and trust that we can come out and be on break, and it’s okay, we’re playing in there, and that outside is safe,” ...

Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged mainland to bustling Athens, we trace the rise of Greek culture.

ANCIENT OLYMPIA – 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 repatriation marking ...