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For the ancient Greeks, Aphrodite was about so much more than love and beauty. In an overarching way, she was the goddess of consensus,...

Archaeologists are scared to open the 2,200-year-old burial place of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang. They worry that it might contain dangerous booby...

The oldest wine ever discovered in liquid form was found in a Roman tomb in Spain dating 2000 years ago, scientists say. Located in Carmona...

Skyros, the southernmost of the Sporades, is not among the better-known Greek islands, but it has a devoted following of visitors who come back...

The Ancient Greeks may have built temples and other sacred or treasured sites deliberately on land previously affected by earthquakes.

Animals were an important part of life in antiquity, and the Ancient Greeks loved their pets. Ancient sources tell us that they kept a...

Every summer, Greeks flock to the beaches of the Aegean and Ionian seas to swim and get a tan. But did the ancient Greeks enjoy the beach?

Greeks fought on the side of the Allies on D-Day, June 6, 1944, which was largest seaborne invasion in history.

In a remarkable new revelation, recent studies by the University of Cincinnati show that the Griffin Warrior was of Greek descent. The results, which...

Kostis Palamas was not only one of the major Greek poets of modern times. He was also one of the most inspiring figures of...