Following the success of Christopher Nolan’s latest film, The Odyssey, Odysseus has returned to prominence as the cleverest of all ancient Greek heroes. He defeated enemies through deception, escaped monsters by creating false identities, and returned to his homeland...
Greece has reopened the restored Byzantine Moglena Castle in Pella following the completion of a €1.85 million ($2.13 million) conservation and enhancement project. The Recovery and Resilience Facility financed the work. For centuries, Moglena Castle served as an important...
For a while now, the label "narcissist" has been a buzzword for “empaths” and other psychology enthusiasts online. This word describes a person’s pursuit of personal desire, at any cost. Where does it come from, and how did it...
In 399 BC, Athens, the cradle of democracy and philosophy, tried and killed a seemingly innocent man in one of the most controversial trials in history. The defendant, Socrates, was a 70-year-old philosopher whose teachings profoundly influenced the city's...
Is the history of the Nabataeans mysterious or lost? The Kingdom of the Nabataeans has not been substantially recorded by scholars and archaeologists alike, but that is changing. The question is if there is any connection between the Nabataeans...
One of the most notable objects of the Minoan civilization is the Phaistos disk. It is a clay disk about six inches (15 centimeters) in diameter, with spiral inscriptions and approximately dates from the Middle or Late Minoan Bronze...
The shackled men found in a mass grave near ancient Athens were not foreign fighters or outside invaders, according to a new study. Instead, chemical evidence from their teeth shows they came from the same region where they were...
An ancient merchant ship carrying hundreds of amphorae dating to the late 5th and early 4th centuries BC has been discovered off the Greek island of Andros, offering new evidence of maritime trade during the Classical period.
The discovery was...
Archaeologists have recently discovered multiple artifacts depicting ancient Greek deities in the ancient city of Finziade in Sicily.
Now known as Licata, the site of the ancient Greek city of Finziade (Greek: Φιντιάς/Phintias) is located in a hilly part of...
Archaeologists studying an ancient Greek gate in Libya have found new clues about how the structure was built, funded and dated, thanks to hundreds of carved marks left behind by the stonecutters who built it.
A new study of the...
