While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Image In Vezzoli’s studio, from left, a Solitaria console by Ettore Sottsass; a reproduction of Bertel Thorvaldsen’s 1806 sculpture of Hebe, the Greek goddess of youth; and a set of shelves ...

Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday:Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario ...

Once a prominent Greek bank owner, Marina beat non-Hodgkin lymphoma in her 20s and breast cancer about two decades later before ... I could see auras and colors around people,” she said, noting ...

Limber up and eat some pasta, because we're about to test you with a bit of Boston Marathon trivia for every mile of the run.

Visiting Athens, Greece, is a bucket-list trip for many people. Athens was the at the ... adorned with intricately carved female statues. Located at the entrance to the Acropolis, the Propylaia ...

The newly reopened market had topped my list of places to go in Greece's second-largest city, bringing together my two favourite things ... the city and left 70,000 people homeless, including ...

Located just two ... statues, utensils made of stone and ceramics, obsidian blades and many graves. Many of these treasures are now housed in the National Archaeological Museum in Greek's capital ...

Sculptures are first-century ... the Phoenix by President Karolos Papoulias of Greece for her contributions to knowledge of the ancient world. “People ask why I have no children,” she says.

Credit: Ellinikos Stratos The mystery of the works of the American naval base in Nea Makri, Greece, which was shut down in 1990, has people who investigate ... was dedicated to the goddess Isis. Two ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues ... about the treatment of a statue of Artemis. People "anointed her with precious unguents" and ...