The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of ...

A theater that once overlooked ancient Lefkada in Greece is seeing the light of day more than a century after its initial ...

Slavery in Ancient Greece was acceptable and common, as in most organized societies of the time, yet with differences between ...

However, researchers have uncovered what they believe to be a massive subterranean gold deposit, potentially the largest of ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

By Joshua Hammer Photographs by Ekin Özbi̇çer The city gate of Ariassos, one of several ancient cities connected ... took root in every polis, the Greek term for city-state.

Now the new name has sparked its own controversy. The name Spartans refers to residents of an ancient Greek city-state whose military was known for its ferocity. But William King Moss III said ...

The agoras of the ancient Greek city-states were open areas for people to assemble for everything from political gatherings to public debates. Ancient Agora is the most popular of its kind ...

Some of the similarities between ancient ... states. Rome faced a particular challenge from Pyrrhus of Epirus, who ruled over northwestern Greece. He defended the Greek city-states in southern ...

There are stunning black sand beaches all over the world, and almost all of them are worth a visit. In this article, we take ...

On March 25, the renowned Sri Lankan social anthropologist Prof. Gananath Obeyesekere of Princeton University, passed away leaving academia across the world immeasurably poorer. Till his last breath, ...

Visitors to the lobby of the Empire State ... network of Greek culture extended far and wide, offering an open invitation to explore. Today one can follow the itinerary of an ancient traveler ...