Explore Plato's life, his philosophical impact, and his travels to Sicily, along with key ideas on justice and the ideal ...

The Suda, the massive tome written by a Byzantine scholar around the year 1100, was one of the world's first encyclopedias ...

Quiet but bewitching, Chios is the fifth largest Greek island. Its landscapes, its fortified villages and its liquid gold: mastic. An undiscovered gem and a must-see!

Ancient Greece ... the surviving manuscript we have is incomplete, missing its latter pages, but from the text of the preamble, we can determine that the list of seven sights matches Antipater’s.

Does Homer's Iliad really describe the horned helmets of the Mycenaean Era, or was he talking about something else entirely?

Legend has it that the island of Ios, Greece was where Homer took his last breath and that now he lies in his tomb on a hill at Plakoto.

The story of Philinnion is about a ghost in ancient Greece, a maiden who returned from the grave to make love to a human.

How did the Olympic Games set the stage for the world portrayed in Homer's Iliad? What important trend began in the eighth ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] A batch of ancient Chinese silk manuscript fragments, believed to be older than the Dead Sea Scrolls, are returning to China after a handover ceremony at the US ...

The Greek Orthodox Church of the Pantocrator in Patras, Greece, stands out for having been modeled after Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.

A new analysis of Dead Sea Scrolls that paired radiocarbon dating with AI has determined many of the biblical manuscripts are ...