While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

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

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...

A popular exhibit at the Putnam Museum is seeing some improvements. The Black Earth Big River Exhibit shows an ancient sea that covered Iowa long, long ago. But that's not all, the museum is offering ...

On Kea, a small Greek island just a short ferry ride from Athens, local traditions sit side by side with the latest in luxury ...

The cradle of Western civilization birthed democracy, philosophy, theatre, and the Olympic Games. It’s a place that has captured the imagination of travelers for millennia. And yet for all that ...

The discovery included a small amphora, an ancient Greek vessel sometimes used ... Mykolaiv is in southern Ukraine on the coast of the Black Sea. According to scholars, several groups, including ...

Sandblu , a new luxury resort in Santorini overlooking the seaside village of Kamari from the foothills of Greece's ancient ...

a city believed to have been located on the Western coast of the Black Sea near the modern day Turkish town of Kıyıköy. His story is told in the Argonautica by ancient Greek author Apollonius ...

Little did we anticipate, as we exited the city, what a tour of Greece’s wider climate woes we would receive along the way.

The Peloponnese peninsula has its own four peninsulas, and the most westerly, the Messenia, is where luxury hotelier Mandarin Oriental has chosen to dip its toe into balmy Greek waters.