Seven candidates in the IOC presidential election came to the most sacred Olympic site two days before the contest Thursday ...

Tolerance, coexistence, exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations play an irreplaceable role in advancing ...

The ancient world was replete with a myriad of fascinating civilizations, many of which are no longer remembered.

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

Santorini, a picturesque Greek island, hides a volatile secret beneath its stunning landscapes. Scientists warn that the ...

The Parthenon The Parthenon stands as an enduring symbol of ancient Greece and its democratic ideals. Perched majestically on ...

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, visit the Acropolis Museum, accompanied by Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and his wife, Vlassia Pavlopoulou-Peltsemi, in Athens, Greece, ...

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, attends the CPC ...

This island is home to one of the world's best beach which was famously visited by the then Prince Charles and Princess Diana ...

Her book covers bathing cultures from ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, to modern Korea and the Ottoman Empire.

Joshua Hammer’s “The Mesopotamian Riddle” chronicles the 19th-century contest between an archaeologist, a soldier and a clergyman to decipher an ancient text ...