After 40 days of Lenten fasting—or even just a few days for some—Greeks eagerly await Easter Sunday to savor spit-roasted ...

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A nearly complete skeleton found in a cave in France belonged to a group known as the Palaeolithic dogs and its skeleton ...

While keeping the long-dead crocodilian intact, McKnight and her team also “virtually” recreated the bronze hook lodged in ...

For decades, researchers have theorized that ancient cats in and around Cyprus —  located southeast of Greece, south of Turkey —most likely followed early farmers and then “gradually got accustomed to ...

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Cecrops, Athens’ first king, banned bloody sacrifices and reformed worship with laws, morality, and symbolic offerings.

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The werewolf myth is not a product of modern fiction, but a story going back more than two millennia to Lycaon, the ancient Greek werewolf.