With their eyes fixed on the sky, the ancient Greeks formed constellations through noticing shapes in the stars.

A mysterious inscription on an ancient Sphinx that puzzled scientists for decades has finally been deciphered as Greek writing. For decades, scholars examined the drawing, attempting to decode the ...

Archaeologists in Greece have uncovered a magnificent ancient building adorned with marble lion sculptures and a treasure ...

Among the gold artifacts is an earring in the form of a naked, winged Eros figure holding a scepter and wreath.

Who were the ancient Greeks? Who were the ancient Greeks? Discover different ancient Greek cities and find out how they were ruled. How did the Olympic Games begin? Learn how the Olympic Games ...

Why Trust Us? Archeologists uncovered a heroon—a funerary monument to an Ancient Greek hero—near the modern Greek city of Aigio in the Peloponnese. Located in the ancient city of Rypes ...

“Christopher Nolan’s next film ‘The Odyssey’ is a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX film ...

Ancient Greek art spans a period between about 900 and 30 BCE and is divided into four periods: Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. Throughout that period, artists worked with a wide ...

The main theory, which went all the way back to Aristotle and ancient Greece, was that birds hibernated during the winter and ...

From Apollo to Zeus, the 12 Olympian gods and goddesses are the most powerful deities in the pantheon of ancient Greek mythology and religion. The Greek gods — and the Roman gods they inspired — ...

The British colonisers who travelled to India from the 18th century onwards were steeped in the Classics; they knew their Greek and Latin (if not the languages of India) and quoted liberally from ...