The Grande Bretagne reverted to the Allies in 1944 but still was almost blown up by the Greek Resistance that Christmas. Only news that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was staying there ...

One of the most legendary battles of the ancient world, the Battle of Marathon marked a turning point in the Greco-Persian ...

Italian boy names are among some of the most suave names you could give a baby boy.  After all, the Italian language is ...

Can Greece’s mineral-rich waters, where the ancient Greeks once bathed, be a cure for exhaustion? Heidi Fuller-Love ...

The evolution of the term "barbarian" in ancient Greek thought—from cultural outsider to a symbol of uncivilized otherness—is ...

Suzy Karadsheh remembers accompanying her father to the open-air market, or souk, in the coastal city Port Said, Egypt, to ...

Archaeologists identified skeletons found in an ancient tomb as the royal lineage of Alexander the Great, including his ...

The Spartan army clash with the Thebans and general Epaminondas at the Leuctra battlefield signified the end of Sparta's military dominance.

Empires / states that occupied Cyprus include Assyria, Egypt, Persia, Greek Ptolemaic Egypt, Rome, Arab caliphates, France, Venice, Mongol Ottoman Turkey, and Britain.

TEHRAN-The Persian translation of the novel “Greek Lessons” written by the South Korean author Han Kang has been released in the bookstores across Iran.

Saint Anastasius was a Persian by race, the son of a Magus, and a soldier in the Persian army in the days of Chosroes II, King of Persia, and Heraclius, Emperor of New Rome. The Saint's Persian name ...