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Very few figures of the ancient Greek world of medicine loom as large as Diocles of Carystus, even though he is not as widely...

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

The Greek Navy has extended its drills in an area of water just off the country's southeastern Peloponnese coast, effectively blocking Russian oil from...

The discovery of a ship that disappeared five hundred years ago and was found in a desert in southwest Africa with gold coins aboard...

Polycrates was the first ruler in ancient Greece to understand the importance of controlling the seas, and as such he commanded the most powerful...

Kerameikos is the name of an Athenian demo formerly known as the potters' quarter, today the largest necropolis in Greece.

Considered by some to be the influence for Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, the Greek-speaking British spy Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz carried out a series of...

Neanderthals and early humans are now believed to have inhabited Naxos 200,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought.

Archaeologists have discovered the ancient grave of a person they refer to as a "mayor." This individual was buried alongside a wealth of treasures...

In the prehistoric settlement of Dikili Tash in northern Greece, the oldest samples of wine ever recorded in Europe were discovered. The samples date back...