The gymnasium (i.e. gym) in ancient Greece was an important institution, as exercising and keeping one's body fit were vital ...
Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Greek sanctuary in Ponte during the construction of a high-speed railway in Italy.
Athens was the place to go in ancient Greece for culture. Every four years, Athens held the Panathenaic Games. Thousands of people paraded through the city to worship the god Athena. There were ...
New research has uncovered the earliest traces of lead contamination caused by human activities, linking the development of ...
The world of archaeology and art is often filled with thrilling discoveries, but few match the sheer surprise and sere ...
In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered ... B.C., it reveals the central importance of the feast to classical Greek culture. Like Xenophon’s earlier work, Plato’s is also set at the ...
Ancient Greeks held festivals ... and all artifacts photographed with permission of Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.
On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with an unusual object that he said he had found in a ...
Leslie Katz covers the intersection of culture, science and tech ... at the site of Heraclea Sintica, an ancient city in southwestern Bulgaria near the Greek border. They found it during a ...