Plutarch could be considered the first outspoken vegetarian in the West, as he believed that it is "immoral" to eat animal ...

Hellanicus of Lesbos, born c. 480 BC in Greece, was one of the earliest, most prolific Greek logographers of the 5th century ...

Ancient Greece is traditionally remembered for its philosophy, mythology, and great buildings—but there's a lesser-known side ...

For over two thousand years, successive societies forged the civilization of ancient Greece. From the early societies of the ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

All are thought to date from various periods of ancient Greek history and will be assessed by a state archaeological service. Police also confiscated metal detectors and scanning equipment ...

Cosgrove observed that the hymn is a challenge for researchers because it isn’t of central importance for scholars of ancient Greek music and because historians of Christian liturgy generally ...

Authorities on the Greek island of Crete have arrested six people allegedly involved in an antiquities smuggling operation ...

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

For those looking for a more adventure-packed holiday, there's the opportunity to do snorkelling and diving excursions to ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...