At some point during the 6th century BC, a lyric poet named Lasus of Hermione was born in the region of Argolis in Greece. He was to leave a truly...

Ancient Greece was a civilization full of activity. Right from as early as 1600 BC Greece was full of impressive buildings, signs of powerful kings,...

For decades, a fractured clay wine cup sitting in Greece’s Lamia Archaeological Museum was regarded as just another example of...

Credit: ho visto nina volare, Napoli, Museo Archeologico, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 At some point during the 6th century BC, a lyric poet named...

Credit: ho visto nina volare, Napoli, Museo Archeologico, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 At some point during the 6th century BC, a lyric poet named...

Music education was essential in ancient Greece. Photo of an Attic clay plate from around 480 BC depicting a young man playing the aulos (flute)....

Music education was essential in ancient Greece. Photo of an Attic clay plate from around 480 BC depicting a young man playing the aulos (flute)....

The astrolabe, an intricate brass instrument made in 11th-century Spain, was used for charting the position of the stars

In the 21st century, much of what the world thinks of as ancient Greece is based on 5th century B.C. Greek architecture. We visualize the Parthenon...

After Constantinople, a city first settled by ancient Greeks in the 7th century BC as Byzantium, fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453, many Greeks made...