The gold and silver mines of ancient Greece produced the metals needed to forge empires and lay the foundations of Western ...

A 2,700-year-old ancient Greek helmet of the Corinthian type discovered in ancient Olympia is now a national treasure of ...

For over a thousand years, people from across the Mediterranean flocked to the temple of Eleusis in Greece to take part in a ritual so secretive that anyone caught talking about it was immediately ...

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

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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 ...

In impromptu remarks delivered following the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy called on Americans to “tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of ...

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

Classics is the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilization, which laid the foundation of the western tradition in literature, philosophy, history, art, science and mathematics. Classics is thus not ...

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 ...