Discover seven ancient Greek theaters and other historical sites across Greece where theater, music, and mythology come alive ...

We call those people ancient Greeks. The ancient Greeks lived mainly on coasts and islands surrounded by the Mediterranean ...

Archaeologists have made an important discovery while exploring Salamis, a small island off the coast of Greece near Athens where a now-sunken city once stood. Scientists found a partially submerged ...

More than a century after its initial discovery, the only known amphitheater on the Ionian Islands is finally seeing the light of day. Perched on a hillside on Lefkada, an island off the west coast of ...

The Temple of Hera, home to the frontrunner of the Olympic Games, is one of the oldest religious sanctuaries in Greece. Lighting ceremony of the Olympic flame for the 2018 Winter Olympics in ...

The Parthenon got a glow-up. Preservationists added marble slabs to the western pediment of the iconic temple, restoring a key portion of the landmark, reports Euronews. Built to honor the goddess ...

The ingenuity of the construction techniques used by Greek builders 2,000 years ago continues to dazzle the world. What did these ancient engineers get right? And how does looking to the past help ...

Houses and businesses across the Greek capital incorporate—or obscure—structures spanning the city’s ancient, Byzantine, medieval and Ottoman eras Demetrios Ioannou A surviving section of the ...

Greece turned a fifth-century-BC shipwreck off the island of Alonissos into the country’s first underwater museum, letting ...

The class of the metics in ancient Greek society has often been overlooked. What were their unique status and roles in the ancient society?