I’m dead, then? Good.” With this wry, sardonic opening line, 77-year-old AE Housman finds himself ferried across the River ...

The ancient Greek value of hospitality which ranked at the top of the list of virtues, and still lives on today in Greece, is ...

An ancient Greek custom of decorating tree branches might have inspired the modern-day decoration of the Christmas tree.

An archaeological excavation in Greece has revealed the remains of an ancient monumental building replete with marble lion sculptures and intriguing gold artifacts, among other finds. The dig ...

Sure, the ancients went on holidays for a rest and to cure illnesses. But they didn’t always come back healthy.

But did you know that the tale of Christmas probably goes back to the ancient city of Rome? Yep, without the Saturnalia ...

One major reason why ancient Greece was dominated by small city-states and independent towns, rather than by one all-powerful king, is its geography. The country's mountainous terrain, many ...

With more than 200 inhabited islands in Greece, each with its own attractions ... famous writers like Homer and Shakespeare, as well as ancient Venetian, French and British armies that fought ...

The most serious allegations against Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick to head the U.S. Department of Defense, involve ...

Encaustic painting was a technique of painting with colored molten wax that originated in Ancient Greece. Over the following ...

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 ...