Ancient Greeks saw Olympus as a divine realm of Zeus and the gods, not a mountain. Its link to Mount Olympus emerged in later traditions.

Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated ...

Greece approved plans for the construction of a museum at Faliro, south of Athens, that will exhibit a group of 78 shackled skeletons.

Athens was the place to go in ancient Greece for culture. Every four years, Athens held the Panathenaic Games. Thousands of people paraded through the city to worship the god Athena. There were ...

A new exhibition in Athens uses art and antiquities from the Cyclades islands to reveal the experiences of ancient Greek ...

The world of archaeology and art is often filled with thrilling discoveries, but few match the sheer surprise and sere ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered ... B.C., it reveals the central importance of the feast to classical Greek culture. Like Xenophon’s earlier work, Plato’s is also set at the ...

On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with an unusual object that he said he had found in a ...

Fabio Schina, Italian consul general in Chongqing, said the exhibition offers a unique opportunity to explore the profound ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The organized ...