Gold-covered Mycenaean burials in southern Greece are offering a striking look at how ancient mourners carefully arranged the dead with jewelry, weapons, and precious...
The life-size silver bull of Delphi, discovered in 1939, continues to mesmerize with the artistry of the ancient Greeks.
The stunning piece was discovered in...
The draining of Lake Kopaida (Lake Copais) in Boeotia, north of Athens, was among the most ambitious land reclamation projects of ancient Greece and...
Greece’s Animasyros Festival brought 280 animated films from 50 countries to the Cycladic island of Syros, ending on Sunday, with organizers describing the 19th...
For John Koudounis, receiving the Order of the Phoenix brought together a long professional journey, a friendship stretching back to his college years and...
One of Greece's most significant archaeological sites, the monumental Nicopolis in Epirus, has been officially handed back to the local community and the general...
A Greek judicial council has found sufficient evidence to send former deputy minister Christos Triantopoulos and four other officials to trial over interventions at...
The Greek island of Kythera has honored Greek-Australian filmmaker George Miller, known for creating and directing the Mad Max films, by naming a new...
A proposal by a group of mainly Israeli residents to establish a private "international" school in a former Greek primary school building in southern...
Builders in the Ethiopian highlands created a palace nearly 2,800 years ago whose walls were theoretically strong enough to support a structure up to...
King Mohammed VI has appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri to lead the government, making her Morocco’s first female prime minister after her party finished...
DNA recovered from Thomas Jefferson’s hair has provided the strongest genetic evidence yet that the third U.S. president fathered children with Sally Hemings, an...
Scientists in China reconstructed the face of an 8,000-year-old man whose remains were recovered from the Jiahu archaeological site in Henan province, offering a...
Archaeologists excavating an ancient sanctuary in southern Italy have uncovered an inscription bearing the Doric form of Athena's name, the ancient Greek goddess of...
The Roman conquest of Greece did not erase the architectural traditions of the Greek world in monuments and buildings. Instead, the Roman rulers added...
Cleisthenes was the statesman who laid the foundations of democracy in ancient Athens by dividing Attica into ten tribes, based on location, and putting...
