On December 10, 1963, Greek diplomat and poet Giorgos Seferis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by King Gustav of ...

This article follows our family as we visit the Ancient Agora of Athens. Plus, learn about the history of this iconic ...

Underwater archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Egyptian pleasure boat, which appears in art and writing but has never ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

As Patricia Mahan and Dan Matarazzo stroll through their village of Kritsa in Crete, watching the Mediterranean sunset paint ...

Historians have long debated the height of Ancient Greeks, imagining either towering heroes or smaller-than-modern people.

Many wonders are described in ancient Greek stories, but few figures stand out as boldly as Talos, the giant made of shining ...

The fear of vampires did not begin with Dracula. Several thousand years ago, the ancient Mesopotamians had already recorded ...

The new No.1 for 2026 is a sun-soaked country in Southern Europe whose thousands of picturesque islands have made it a ...

In 1697, William Congreve, a British playwright, wrote that: “Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd, and, as ...

The number of Greek Cypriots using Cyprus’ nine crossing points to cross to the north fell by more than 15 per cent in the second quarter of the year compared to the same period last year, according ...

The Greek poet Crinagoras of Mytilene (1st century BC–1st century AD) once addressed a little poem to an earthquake. He asked the quake not to destroy his house: Earthquake, most dread of all shocks … ...