As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology ...

The Mycenaeans of Ancient Greece, known for Homer’s Iliad and cyclopean walls, were also Europe’s first record keepers.

The monstrous creatures of Greek myth, such as the giant one-eyed Cyclops, may have been inspired by large fossils of extinct animals, which are plentiful in Greece. Scholars surmise that fossil ...

Excavations at Knossos exposed a dazzling Minoan world of palaces, ritual spectacle, and far-reaching sea connections, then a sudden age of disaster. After Thera’s eruption and island-wide turmoil, ...

A small ceramic fragment, unearthed in a settlement near the Acropolis, reveals a unique pictorial scene that suggests a ceremony to invoke rain, shedding new light on the religious beliefs and ...

Then there were more tales of bulls. Poseidon sent a magnificent bull from the sea, which Minos was meant to sacrifice to the god, but instead kept for his herd. As punishment, his wife Pasiphaë, ...

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LOS ANGELES – Once in the crosshairs of the deadly Palisades Fire, the famed Getty Villa Museum in the tony coastal hills of Los Angeles has a reopening date. The villa has been closed since Jan. 7, ...

A team of researchers has analyzed more than 165 gold objects found in four monumental tombs in the Bay of Volos, in the Greek region of Thessaly, revealing fascinating details about how Mycenaean ...

At best, Cypriot men are 30 per cent of Greek descent, a study constructing the DNA reference of Cypriots has so far shown. This indicates the island’s population has more genetic similarities with ...