Ancient Greece witnessed numerous significant battles that played pivotal roles in shaping its history and Western civilization.

The ancient Greek society was a complex mix of ingenuity, brutality, eccentricities and practices that you may define as cultural rites that often fall outside of contemporary expectations. Of the ...

Alexander the Great accomplished so much so soon so young that he rightly earned the honor of heroic greatness. He was definitely a hero and a genius. His mother Olympias tried to convince him he was ...

Ancient Greek thinkers, from Hesiod to Plato, and later Rousseau saw in the noble savage a vision of lost divine harmony and ...

Produced in collaboration with the UK’s Lion Television and inspired by the best-selling book by Greek writer Christos ...

A new analysis of genome sequences from the ancient Minoans and Mycenaeans offers insight into the origins of these Bronze Age cultures. For the first time, scientists have obtained and analyzed ...

All traditions are human inventions that last briefly or, sometimes, forever. Some of those innovations are extremely useful, and last, others vanish, only to be replaced by better alternatives. We ...

Long before municipal water treatment plants and chlorination, ancient societies faced the same essential challenge we ...

Archaeologists in Greece may have made a fascinating discovery in an ancient palace on the island of Crete. Citing Greece’s Ministry of Culture, ANA-MPA reports that the room was discovered during ...

It’s just another way of “keeping it in the family.” A new DNA study revealed Monday that several parts of ancient Greece encouraged its citizens to marry their first cousins, according to the Max ...

ATHENS, May 15 (Xinhua) -- A special exhibition titled "The Light of Bronze: Ancient Shu Civilization" held at the Nea Smyrni Museum in Athens, offered Greek audiences a glimpse into the mysteries of ...