In ancient Greece people enjoyed chilled wine at social gatherings, using specially designed cooling pots called psykter.

A sarcophagus decorated with garlands, believed to be 2,000 years old, has been unearthed at the ancient city of Stratonikeia ...

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Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. In Greek and Roman myth, the ...

merely a figure of ancient fiction — or was he a flesh-and-blood man? In 1991, Makis Metaxas, a local politician on the Greek island of Kefalonia, discovers a 3000-year-old Mycenaean tomb.

With the spool of thread in her hand, the Ancient Greek figure Clotho was able to decide the fate of the mortals on Earth. Clotho had the ability to start and restore life, bringing back into the ...