Some scholars trace Valentine's Day back to ancient Greece and the mythical green meadows of Arcadia in the Peloponnese.

In ancient Greece, music education was as important as philosophy in cultivating young people's souls, perceiving both ...

The ancient Olympic games were crowded with male athletes, but were there opportunities for females to compete in sports?

Discovered in a Mediterranean shipwreck in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism stunned historians with its intricate system of interlocking bronze gears dating back to around 100 BC. X-ray imaging later ...

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

Ancient Greece wasn’t just philosophers and democracy, punishment could be brutal. From exile and execution to the terrifying ...

Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity explores the connections between Irish myths and modern stories and the classical ...

Archaeologists in Trabzon, Turkey, have made an extraordinary discovery, unearthing one of the world’s only three known ancient river ports. The structure, found buried nearly eight meters (26 feet) ...

As Greece feels the impact of overtourism due to rising visitor numbers, it’s still possible to find idyllic, lesser-visited ...

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