Corfu Town is also speckled with traditional Greek restaurants ... pebbly beaches and the immaculate Mount Pantokrator, whose summit towers nearly 3,000 feet above northeast Corfu, offering ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas — or Father Spyridon, as he’s affectionately called — has prayed, worked and ...

Stavros Niarchos, the great Greek benefactor, passed away on this day 25 years ago, leaving a foundation that continues his ...

A pair of physicists at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, in Argentina, have created a computer simulation of the famed ...

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether it would have worked without jamming ...

For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at ...

Fall from these structures, as monks often did during their perilous, devotion-proving construction, and you’d have many ...

Researchers have created a computational model of the Antikythera mechanism to test how it worked. It was prone to jamming ...

Nick Angeloff, an archaeologist at Cal Poly Humboldt, has called the developments at Gradishte a once-in-a-lifetime discovery ...

Over 120 years ago, sponge divers off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera unearthed one of the most enigmatic ...

It took Andrew Carol 30 days to build a working model of the Antikythera Mechanism—the ancient Greek world's most ...