Experts believe the lost city Tharais wasn’t just an agricultural village—it may have also been a spiritual hub.

New research shows how trade rooted in local resource differences and the conflicts it sparked, made ancient Greek ...

Each year, this ceremony -- called "Anastenaria" ("sighs" in Greek) -- attracts crowds of visitors. Considered a pagan ritual to honour the ancient Greek gods Dionysus and Artemis, the ancient ...

Under a cloud of incense smoke, a group of men and women in a village in northern Greece swayed slowly to the music before removing their shoes and rushing, barefoot, onto waiting embers.

The Francis Crick Institute. (2025, May 22). Ancient DNA used to map evolution of fever-causing bacteria. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 1, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 05 ...

At this Athens workshop, replicating antiquities promotes Greek culture and creates the country’s ultimate souvenirs. Plaster casts of an ancient Greek bust of Sappho, the poetess, are created ...

The statues were rigid, and often standing up straight with neutral facial expressions—this is a far cry from the soft, airy Greek statues we most associate with the ancient culture. By 500 B.C ...

Banana traces in 3,000-years-olf Philistine teeth rewrite Iron Age trade map. Illustration. (photo credit: Rushay. Via Shutterstock) Aren Maeir of Bar-Ilan University and Philipp Stockhammer of ...

The eyes of ancient Greek sculptures possess a timeless stare bridging our worlds. Credit: Credit: George E. Koronaios, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (left), Vicenç Valcárcel Pérez, Wikimedia ...

In a cinematic first, Greek director Yiannis Stravolaimos brings the 490 BCE clash to life in Ancient Greek and Old Persian, fusing myth, history, and cultural diplomacy in a bold retelling of an ...

Juan de Lara By combining archaeology and technology, a researcher has shed light on a longstanding architectural mystery: how the ancient Greeks ... each Greek temple’s visual experience ...