but the oracle at Delphi was the most famous. It was referred to as the navel of the world. So, literally the centre of the ancient universe. People would travel from all over Greece to consult the ...

Rain fell in sheets on the broken columns and stone blocks. I stood on the ancient ground where Agamemnon, Socrates and Cicero, among others, had humbly stood, hoping to get answers to their big qu… ...

Once sacred, the Oracle at Delphi was lost for a millennium. See how it was found. Relying on clues from the past, a team of 19th-century archaeologists uncovered Delphi, the site where ancient ...

This is the premise of “The Road to Delphi,” Michael Wood’s subtle and wide-ranging consideration of oracles and the oracular mode. In ancient Greece, Delphi was the site of the most famous ...

The mass poisoning of the city of Kirrha, south of Delphi, around 595 BC, stands out in ancient Greece for its chilling scale ...

Visiting the Oracle at Delphi is nothing short of soul-stirring. So is retracing the path that ancient visitors took to get there. Credit...Maria Mavropoulou for The New York Times Supported by By ...

DELPHI, Greece — The steep, rocky slopes of Mount Parnassus seem to scrape the sky above me. I’m standing among the ruins of one of the most famous places in the ancient world.

The most famous oracle was at Delphi in central Greece, where a woman ... suggest that thinking about ancient oracles and how they work brings us face-to-face with some aspects of modern ...

Oracle is a beautiful, bizarre, trip to ancient Greece. by Danielle Riendeau. Aug 13, 2014, 1:04 AM UTC ...