The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

Rick Steves If you want to get away from it all when traveling in Greece, head for the Peloponnesian Peninsula. Studded with antiquities, this land of ancient Olympia, Corinth, and Sparta offers ...

A recent analysis of classical medical texts suggests dementia was extremely rare in ancient Greece and Rome 2,000 to 2,500 years ago. The USC-led research, published in the Journal of Alzheimer's ...

Ancient Greek measurement unit: Protocorinthian Cotyle, 650-625 BC. Ancient Agora Museum at Athens, Credit: Zde CC BY-SA 4.0 The ancient Greeks developed sophisticated units of measurement ranging ...

This stunning Greek peninsula offers stunning natural beaches, coves, charming towns, is the birthplace of the Olympic Games ...

The mythical sentry was depicted as thinking like a human and showing some human-like tendencies New Research Historians think the 2,000-year-old device was used to predict the positions of ...

The repatriation, marked by a ceremony led by Culture Minister Lina Mendoni, adds pressure on the UK to negotiate, with Greece offering to loan artefacts in exchange. Excavations beneath the Basilica ...

The torches for the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics are now revealed in Milan and Osaka. These torches are crafted from ...

Average temperatures hover around 19°C in May, with highs of 23°C, making it the perfect time to explore before the summer ...

Long before paper napkins or linen serviettes became dining staples, the ancient Greeks had a more flavorful solution: bread. In a time when meals were eaten by hand and sustainability was second ...

Perched on a hillside on Lefkada, an island off the west coast of Greece, the structure has been ... began around the 4th century B.C.E., when ancient Lefkada was experiencing economic prosperity.