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Customs, flavors and rituals linking food to the sacred and divine had an enormous upheaval during the time of Alexander the Great.

To ancient Greeks, our modern democracy would count as “oligarchy”. The rule of and by the few, as opposed to the power of the people.

Explicit erotic art was common in ancient Greece and Rome. Sex is everywhere on Athenian vases of the 6th and 5th centuries BC.

Relations between Turkey and Europe have become increasingly strained, as many fear that Erdogan is promoting pan-Turkism in the Continent.

The Greek Parliament has designated May 19th as a day of remembrance for the Genocide of the Greeks of Pontus, the region of Asia Minor.

The Arab governments that recently shared their relations, are being negatively affected by the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

The Greek Assyrian minority in northern Iraq was driven from the oil-rich area of Mosul in the 1910s after a pogrom launched by the Ottomans

President Biden threw his support behind a proposal to waive patent protections for COVID-19 vaccines. What are the pros and cons?

Ancient Greeks and Romans got a surprising number of things right about how disease spreads and the importance of airflow for public health.

The European Medicines Agency has concluded there’s a possible link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and rare forms of blood clotting.

Crete managed to get down to zero cases of Covid during our fist lockdown and, although we remained in lockdown, life felt almost normal.

Through the Greek classics, the true meaning of life can be explored by humanity and all the experiences that come with it. By: Joel Christensen As the coronavirus pandemic hit New York in March, the death toll quickly went up with...

The idea of a closed European Super League started to develop in 2009 and now has become a reality that might mean the end of football

The ancient Greeks had different ways of thinking about narrative and truth than we do today. In an age of deepfakes and alternative facts, it can be tricky getting at the truth. But persuading others – or even yourself –...

by Leslie Absher When I was just a baby, my father was sent to Greece for his first field assignment with the CIA. It was the summer of 1966 when we arrived, nine months before the military coup led...