Andrew Murray Threipland unbolts a heavy iron yett (a latticed gate), and we walk in single file down the passage to the ...

The three main architectural styles used for temples and other formal public buildings in ancient Greece were the Doric, Ionic and Corinthian classical orders. The three orders were first described by ...

From his dozens of lovers came many children, possibly nearing 100, giving new meaning to his status in ancient Greek religion as the father of all. Here are some of Zeus’s most notable offspring, ...

ATHENS, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Greece's former royal family has been granted Greek citizenship and pledged loyalty to the republic in a landmark move 50 years after the country abolished the monarchy.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Prince Philippos, left, Prince Pavlos, center, and Prince Nikolaos, right, sons of former king of Greece ...

Athens, Greece – In a landmark repatriation effort, Greece returned 1,055 ancient coins to Turkey after they were confiscated at the Kipi border crossing in July 2019. The coins, dating from the 5th ...

Four Greek philosophers depicted in an ancient artwork. Credit: Cristian Bortes from Cluj-Napoca, Romania / CC BY 2.0 Christianity, with its roots spanning nearly two millennia, has been shaped by ...

Greece has been selected to host the 9th Ministerial Meeting of the Ancient Civilizations Forum in December 2025, following this year’s meeting in Yerevan, Armenia, which was attended by Greek Culture ...

Researchers have deciphered a mysterious inscription hidden within an ancient amulet ... such inscriptions on amulets were written in Greek or Hebrew," Markus Scholz from Frankfurt's Goethe ...

Archaeologists have discovered an inscribed silver amulet that one theologian now says may rewrite the history of Christianity north of the Alps mountain range. The inscribed amulet was found ...

More than a dozen ancient gold tongues have been discovered in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 13 ancient mummies with gold tongues and ...