Successively colonised by the Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans, Sicily is packed with ancient treasures to discover. From ...

We all know the Odeon of Herodes Atticus under the Acropolis of Athens, but how many of us are aware of the dark secret of ...

Inspired by ancient Greek temples, the exhibition incorporates the classic Doric and Ionic columns into its design. It is ...

A new exhibition in Athens uses art and antiquities from the Cyclades islands to reveal the experiences of ancient Greek ...

Archaeologists Discover an Old Legible Manuscript in a Tomb, Contained Writings to Understand Greek Religion An ancient Greek ...

Mr. Simitis imposed financial measures to prepare for Greece’s entry into the eurozone and laid the groundwork for the Olympic Games’ return to Athens. By Alan Cowell Costas Simitis, a former ...

This might sound familiar, too. It seems very little has changed from the days of the ancient Greek and Roman empires when it comes to finding time to unwind—and being on holidays, too.

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research co-led by a UCL and Francis ...

Letters like this reveal ancient people’s everyday triumphs and ... His letter was written in Greek on papyrus, a writing material made from the pith of the papyrus plant. The dry climate ...

Ancient DNA unlocks new understanding of migrations in the first millennium AD. ScienceDaily . Retrieved January 25, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250101132012.htm ...

Doric Style column and capital of an temple of ancient Greece. Credit: Old_Man_Leica. CC BY-2.0/flickr Doric temple columns typically had no bases and instead rested directly on the stylobate ...

The writing was clearly legible, a few lines deep and stretched across nearly five columns ... being used to decipher ancient texts, from the classical stalwarts of Greek and Latin to China ...