This article follows our family as we visit the Ancient Agora of Athens. Plus, learn about the history of this iconic ...

The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It was a long stretch of time that spanned from the ...

Sophists in ancient Greece were professional educators and intellectuals. Their teachings emphasized public speaking and ...

Archaeologists have made an important discovery while exploring Salamis, a small island off the coast of Greece near Athens where a now-sunken city once stood. Scientists found a partially submerged ...

Joel Christensen is Professor and Chair in the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University. This article originally appeared in The Conversation. As a father of three and the husband of an ...

In June, 1818, during a visit to central Greece, a young English architect named George Ledwell Taylor went out riding with some friends in order to explore the ruins of an ancient town called ...

Perhaps no other ancient city captures our imagination quite like Pompeii. The storyline is familiar: a thriving city on the Bay of Naples- a mecca of high culture and a playground of the rich- ...

Throughout history, there have been intriguing references in ancient texts to devices and mechanisms that bear a striking resemblance to modern computers. These descriptions, while often shrouded in ...

A female Egyptian head with an elongated skull is likely a depiction of the child of Amenophis IV/Akhenaten, 1351-1334 BCE, limestone and red paint, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (image via the ...

Greece’s centre-right government has done a fine job of polishing its image with tourists and investors since Kyriakos Mitsotakis took over as prime minister in 2019. The country’s ancient heritage, ...

Historians have long debated the height of Ancient Greeks, imagining either towering heroes or smaller-than-modern people.

Emilio Gabriel Lapitan is a writer and aspiring author. A lover of stories of any kind, he is passionate about video games, TV, movies, theatre, comic books and cats. Humanity’s storied history never ...