Authorities on the Greek island of Crete have arrested six people allegedly involved in an antiquities smuggling operation.

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

The ecumenical "donation" by the Vatican furthers a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of sculptures taken from the ancient site in Athens more than 200 years ago. View on ...

The lecture hall was discovered during excavations at Agrigento, the site of the largest ancient Greek settlement in Sicily. Photo by Thomas Lappi and Monika Trümper, FU Berlin, Institute of ...

In ancient Greece, education wasn’t limited to the mind — it included the body as well. Physical fitness and scholarly pursuits went hand-in-hand, a principle reflected in the number of gymnasiums ...

After a century-long wait, an excavation has finally revealed the only ancient theatre on Greece's Ionian Islands. Ancient Lefkada’s theatre was first discovered in 1901, but it took until now ...

Soar over the ancient temples of Greece with this breathtaking drone footage. Experience the majestic Parthenon, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, and the historic ruins that tell the story of a grand ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – An ancient Greco-Roman bronze statue that the New York District ... has led experts to believe it depicts an unknown Greek philosopher. The museum bought it in 1986 for $1 ...

The statue was discovered by a local Greek farmer named Yorgos Kentrotas in 1820 in a ruined ancient city on Milos. A French naval officer, Olivier Voutier, happened to be on the island and recognized ...

Pompeii Archaeological Park Two nearly life-size statues have been discovered inside a cemetery in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E. Experts think ...

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 ...