The image many have in mind of Greek sculptures—noble looking with a bit of an emptiness about the eyes—might be slightly ...

Greece has plenty to offer travelers from the ancient remains in Athens to the picturesque beaches on Crete to the iconic ...

In addition to the many magnificent historical monuments in Greece, the country boasts several unique sunken cities and ...

When two British explorers excavated the remnants of the ancient Greek city of Cyrene in 1861, many tombs had already been ...

While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering events between 1200 and 760BC. This period has traditionally been viewed as a ...

Greek cities had beautiful temples with stone columns and statues, and open-air theatres where people sat to watch plays. Image caption, Ancient Greek ruins of the Temple of Apollo and theatre in the ...

From ancient mythology to moonlit forests, the mysterious story behind why owls became symbols of wisdom and why their ...

A joint archaeological project between Greece's culture ministry and a Chinese team of researchers is breaking new ground ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Ancient Greece, the civilisation responsible for all that we cherish about our cultural, political and ...