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 ...

The Greek alphabet, traditionally believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is now undergoing reevaluation thanks to groundbreaking research at Leiden University. The writing system is ...

This essay explores how King's allusions to Greek oral history align maternal/paternal conflicts with structural tensions between oraiity and writing. King suggests that the preservation of oral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The luscious egg-and-lemon soup is the perfect expression of Greek cooking philosophy. I’m at a cooking class on the rooftop of ...

The "Rosetta Stone" — which was discovered in mid-July 1799 during construction of a fort by a French military expedition at the town of Rashid (ancient Rosetta) — contains text written in Egyptian ...

Anyone who has taken an interest in research at the Department of Egyptology at Julius Maximilian University Würzburg (JMU) in the past will be familiar with the name “Soknopaiou Nesos.” This ancient ...

In the mid 1970s, PM Konstantinos Karamanlis proposed Latinizing Greek letters and making the Greek language phonetic.

Remnants of a Mycenaean-era palace on the plain of Sparta have brought to light a number of finely-decorated artifacts, bronze swords, and wall frescoes, according to a press release from the Greek ...