Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West's first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on ...

There were many similarities between ancient Greece and Egypt. The two civilizations were in close contact during the ...

Performed in the annual Dionysia festivals, tragic drama was a central tradition of Ancient Greece, a method of both entertainment and religious worship. Equally important was competition, for at the ...

The fascination with Greek culture can be traced to the early modern period, from the Renaissance until the eighteenth century. During this era, European scholars – and later educated elites and a ...

An ancient swimming pool near Corinth in Greece is still regarded 2,000 years later as an aesthetic engineering marvel.

On October 1, the Greek media exploded with reports about the discovery of a funeral shrine that Alexander the Great may have dedicated to Hephaestion, identified in most reports as his “best friend.” ...

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 ...

Mark Abbe was ambushed by color in 2000, while working on an archeological dig in the ancient Greek city of Aphrodisias, in present-day Turkey. At the time, he was a graduate student at New York ...