The Amazons were said to inhabit a region near the Black Sea called Themiscyra. They lived apart from men, only engaging with ...

Can you name 10 kings or queens from history in 60 seconds? No Googling! Go!How did you do? High five if you got all 10! But ...

While the term might evoke images of ancient philosophers, in finance, the Greeks represent a thoroughly modern approach to putting a number to your risk and potential returns. Options are complex ...

The Mediterranean Sea used to be filled with pirates who terrorized not only Ancient Greece but Rome as well. Long before the ...

The tomb of Thutmose II, a pharaoh who ruled about 3,500 years ago, has been discovered west of the Valley of the Kings.

Protesting farmers have briefly clashed with police in Greece’s second-largest city, Thessaloniki, after attempting to breach ...

Tug of war has been played for thousands of years. Today it's being celebrated globally. Here is more on its origins.

The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece ...

Excavations in the ancient city of Nikopolis, Greece, uncovered the building of the Sebasteion (“temple of the emperors”) in ...

The Battle of Navarino on October 20, 1827 sits between two eras. As the first steam-powered ships took to the seas, two ...

At the start of Aeropus I's rule, the kingdom faced invasions from the Thracians and Illyrians, who inflicted heavy losses on ...

As we start looking ahead to our summer holidays, there are a number of things British holidaymakers need to know before ...