Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...

When Greek tourist hotpot Santorini was rattled by an earthquake at the end of January, it wasn't a one-off. Thousands of tremors have since shaken the south-eastern Aegean Sea region in what ...

A trove of "ancient treasures" was recently found in a third-century shipwreck near Greece. Not only did this trove include ...

The era in which Strabo lived, the saddle between the first centuries bc and ad, was highly receptive to kolossourgiai. The ...

The Cradle of Western Architecture Athens is like a time machine that transports you back to the very roots of Western ...

A mass grave in the Negev excavated by the Israel Antiquities Authority sheds light on funerary, divination, and commercial practices in the first millennium BCE ...

Archaeologists have traced the earliest case of lead pollution by humans to the Aegean Sea region around 5,200 years ago. The findings, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in ...

Researchers have hotly debated where Alexander the Great is buried, with theories ranging from his homeland in Macedonia (now Greece) to Egypt ... at the intersection of two ancient thoroughfares, she ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient Greece produced ... and localized in ancient Greece, considered the cradle of European civilization, throughout the Bronze Age, the Classical period and the Hellenistic ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Increased volcanic activity ... The eruption is believed to have contributed to the decline of the ancient Minoan civilization which had flourished in the region.