UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has adopted a more restrained approach to the Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, stepping away from...
A dispute over the use of European cheese names, including Greece’s Feta, has emerged as an obstacle in trade negotiations between the United States...
The August Sturgeon Moon rose over Greece on Friday, August 28, bringing one of the country’s most celebrated summer traditions back into focus. Beyond...
Greece has climbed into the top 10 European Union countries for paid streaming subscriptions, according to new figures from Eurostat. Four in 10 Greek...
Santorini’s towering cliffs, flooded caldera and black volcanic islets, all shaped by volcanoes, form one of the most recognizable settings in Greece. Yet the...
Christina O, Aristotle Onassis’ legendary yacht, became one of the world’s most famous floating palaces long before today’s billion-dollar superyachts began competing in size...
Students from across Greece and Spain will travel to the Greek island of Chios in September for a six-day cultural and educational gathering dedicated...
Researchers studying 3,000-year-old bronze foils in China have uncovered evidence of sophisticated metalworking at the Sanxingdui site, revealing how ancient Chinese craft combined hammering,...
A Virginia startup launched a new Twitter-branded social network Monday, advancing its claim that Elon Musk abandoned the trademark when the former platform became...
A Roman law expert has reconstructed and translated a 1,600-year-old Latin text preserved in parchment fragments from Egypt, revealing Roman laws not found in...
People living in eastern North America may have consumed cacao, the plant used to make chocolate, about 1,000 years ago, far earlier than researchers...
Archaeologists excavating the ancient Greek city of Kibyra (Greek: Κίβυρα) in southwestern Turkey have reconstructed a nearly 1,900-year-old marble statue of Roman Emperor Hadrian...
On December 1, 1913, the island of Crete was officially integrated into the Greek state after Sultan Mehmet V had finally relinquished all sovereignty...
Dimitsana is a delightful medieval village, located in Arcadia on the Peloponnese in southern Greece just three hours by car from Athens.
The picturesque village...
A recent linguistic study challenges long-held assumptions about whether early Greek absorbed features from the languages of ancient Anatolia. The research, led by Michele...
Ancient Greek writers have left behind clues about how they perceived the physical appearance of Greeks as a people. Several surviving texts use terms...
During the seventh century BC, the ancient Greeks sought to explore and establish colonies throughout the Mediterranean coast. One of the rather earlier waves...
According to a recent study, the Mycenaean Greeks bore genetic influences from diverse ethnic groups as part of the long process of the Indo-Europeanization...
