It was a rare sight on Athens’ skyline, and it didn’t last long: The Parthenon was without scaffolding for the first time in ...

From the first whispers of Greek mythology to the philosophical writings that shaped the Western mind, one belief remained ...

Pindar, the ancient Greek poet of athletic triumphs and divine harmony, celebrated human excellence and the immortal soul ...

The mystery of the Riace Bronzes, two ancient Greek statues remains strong since the day they were recovered off the coast of ...

Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of understanding our ancestors. Archaeologist Aaron Deter-Wolf, pictured in his office ...

Achilles was the son of King Peleus, the mortal king of the Myrmidons, and Thetis, goddess of the sea or a sea nymph. Peleus may have been mortal, but he had divine roots being the grandson of Zeus, ...

Earlier this month, a 32-year-old man from Thessaloniki, Greece made an unexpected and entirely surprising discovery. Next to a trash bin on the street, wrapped up inside a black plastic bag, he found ...

We’re living from the ocean in one of the most remote parts of the Pacific — catching our food and surviving day by day. But during a coastal trek, we stumbled upon something unexpected: mysterious ...

vA German woman has returned an ancient Greek artifact she stole more than half a century ago from Olympia, Greece, the Greek Ministry of Culture announced on Saturday. The artifact—a limestone column ...

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Sprawled across much of the Arabian Peninsula, today’s Arabian Desert is known for brutal heat, dry, harsh winds and scarce water—hardly hospitable to human settlers unaided by air conditioning and a ...