The ancient Greek gods remain a fascination around the world. As immortals with unusual powers, they appear in movies, books, video games.

Few symbols in human history have captured the imagination quite like the Gorgoneion—Medusa’s petrifying face, with her hair made of writhing...

Epilepsy, often referred to as the “Sacred Disease” by ancient Greek physicians in antiquity, was a condition of great medical and...

Imagine Socrates live-tweeting his trial or Plato debating in a Reddit thread—welcome to the ancient agora, the original social media of the ancient...

Male beauty and strength were highly valued by the ancient Greeks, as evidenced by sculptures and other works of art, and were celebrated at a special...

Perperikon, one of the oldest cities in the world, made of stone and only discovered in the 20th century in Bulgaria, shed light on one of the...

The ancient people of Mount Athos, Greece probably owed their longevity to bizarre eating habits such as snake-eating. Legends, myths, mystical...

Greek Orthodox Easter is the stuff myths are made of: age-old fasting rituals, candlelit processions and lots of fireworks. It is also the most...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,300-year-old ancient Greek building and courtyard on Failaka Island (Greek: Φυλάκιο [ Fylakio]), Kuwait...

Evidence preserved on papyri and ostraca as well as in graffiti indicates ancient Greek and Roman tourists visited Egypt to observe and admire the...