Apokries is more than just a prelude to Lent. It’s a celebration deeply rooted in Greece’s cultural and historical ground. Stemming from ancient festivities honoring Dionysus, the god of wine, ...

Whilst the days preceding Lent are traditionally reserved for self-reflection in anticipation of the impending period of repentance and asceticism, the almost two-week period of ‘apokries’ in Cyprus ...

A 5th century wooden ‘stitched ship’ – recreated using ancient stitching techniques and constructed using coconut fiber stitching, traditional wooden joinery, coir rope and natural resins and powered ...

Dozens of beloved local festivities take place for Apokries across the entire country. However, very few have as deep links with the nation’s ancient and more recent past as the custom of the ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

But those experts may have a surprising new answer thanks to new research that shows the ancient people of the Philippines and ISEA may have mastered seafaring well before anyone else. Proving ...

From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

A new study of ancient DNA from fifth- to sixth-century Hun skeletons suggests they were a motley crew of mixed origin with a few connections to the Xiongnu Empire in Mongolia.

Today the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates Apokries, Meatfare Sunday, which is the last day of meat consumption until Pascha. The Sunday of the Last Judgment or Meatfare Sunday is the third Sunday ...

NEW YORK – A collection of 11 ancient Greek artifacts, with a combined value of approximately $1 million, is set to be returned to Greece by the New York District Attorney’s Office. This repatriation ...

Researchers initially thought the tomb belonged to a royal wife. Then they unearthed fragments of alabaster jars that identified it as Thutmose II’s Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Pottery shards ...