Smyrna was one of the most illustrious ancient and Hellenistic-era Greek cities, one of the main centers of Greek culture in ...

Excavations on a Greek island have revealed an ancient temple where animal sacrifices once took place. The temple lies within an ancient Greek sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Artemis located in the ...

ATHENS, Greece — After a decade-long facelift, the ancient Greek temple of Athena Nike is back up, patched up and unfettered on the Acropolis. The slender marble building first erected in the 5th ...

Herodotos (c.490–c.425 BCE) and Thucydides (c.460– c.399 BCE) were great Hellenic / Greek historians. They wrote during the fifth century BCE, about 700 years after Homer. The time of Herodotos and ...

Researchers from the University of Cincinnati’s Classics faculty are preparing to make their first public presentation of details surrounding their find of one of the earliest Greek temples in the ...

A 2000-year-old temple filled with gold and jewels has been unearthed in Greece by archaeologists. The site, excavated on the Greek island of Evia, was discovered packed full of gold, silver and amber ...

Archaeologists working near the coastal village of Samikon have unearthed a monumental temple complex in the Western Peloponnese. Researchers believe this site was dedicated to Poseidon, the powerful ...

Marks on a clay tablet fragment found in Greece are the oldest known decipherable text in Europe, a new study says. Considered "magical or mysterious" in its time, the writing survives only because a ...