Ancient Greeks developed sophisticated units of measurement ranging from measuring length, distance, volume, and weight of solids and liquids ...

The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.

After a century-long wait, an excavation has finally revealed the only ancient theatre on Greece's Ionian Islands. Ancient Lefkada’s theatre was first discovered in 1901, but it took until now ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, carved into ...

Restoration efforts are underway at the archaeological site of Dion, as the Greek Ministry of Culture moves forward with plans to revitalize the monumental complex of the Ancient Agora.

Over 1,700 years ago, the ancient Greek Stoic philosopher, Epictetus, proposed an entirely different theory. He argued that it’s not life events that upset us, but our thoughts about them.

He was a Greek mathematician and the head librarian at the Library ... a feat that stands as a testament to the ingenuity of ancient science. Using the differences in the angle of the sun’s rays at ...

Cleopatra was a daughter of Egypt – part of the Macedonian-Greek-Ptolemaic Dynasty that had ruled since ... to advance the interests of the Ptolemaic legacy. They were masters of ancient Rome – ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. In Greek and Roman ...