The iconic Greek periptero, a cornerstone of urban life for over a century, is rapidly vanishing from cityscapes across the country. These small kiosks, once vital hubs for news, cigarettes, and ...

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

Eva Palmer Sikelianos was a prominent figure in the movement toward reviving ancient Greek artistic and cultural practices.

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

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

If anything can halt the spread of the ‘ism’ that robs us of hope, trust, and agency, it’s the philosophy that is the ...

I started off as an ancient historian and anthropologist (UCL 1998), trained in Classics (Greek literature and philosophy) at Cambridge (1999, 2007), and wrote a first book suggesting that a late ...

A yearslong construction project for a new subway system in Thessaloniki, Greece, has unveiled thousands of ancient artifacts, many of which have been incorporated into the metro station's design ...

The area was known as Triphieion (or Tripeion) to ancient Greeks living in the region after the 7th century BCE. As part of the excavations—led jointly by Mohamed Abdel Badie and Christian Litz ...

Its fossilised anatomy offered evidence of early human upright walking – and 50 years later, in the Afar region of northern Ethiopia that would become a hotspot for ancient human discovery ...

The image of America abroad has suffered in recent years. Whatever the reasons for such loss of favor and face, it is remarkable to find Greece- a nation that has been through history on the same side ...

The couple stands on the edge of the sheer limestone cliff. More than 100 metres (328ft) beneath them is a lost world of ancient forests, plants and animals. All they can see is leafy tree tops ...