In 1908, an archaeologist in Crete discovered a small clay disk bearing unknown symbols. Now known as the Phaistos disk, it ...

As one of the most... The Kritios Boy, a statue displayed at the Acropolis Museum is one of the most important works of ancient Greek art and the most characteristic of the so-called "Severe Style." ...

Ancient relics have been given a fresh lease of life in the Greek capital, where they’ve been reimagined and reworked to ...

Perfectly white statues isn’t the only thing people get wrong about Ancient Greece. In this episode of Misconceptions, host Justin Dodd breaks down some more myths you might be curious to know ...

This is a noble discipline, since, as the author writes, “in the background of every historian’s work is his own contemporary ...

Priestesses in ancient Greece had powers that elevated them to a relatively high status in society. In the majority of ancient Greek city-states—with the notable exception of Sparta—the way women were ...

What were ancient Greek homes like? Learn about everyday life in ancient Greece. What did the ancient Greek believe in? Discover ancient Greek temples, gods and heroes. How did the ancient Greeks ...

In 1971, the Rosicrucian Museum in California acquired a sealed ancient Egyptian coffin containing the well-preserved mummy of a high-status Egyptian male. More than two decades later, a team of ...

Sep. 25, 2024 — A new study on ice cores from Alaska and Greenland found that air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels reaches the remote Arctic in amounts large enough to alter its ...

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) presents unprecedented challenges to the concept of citizenship in the twenty-first ...

Sep. 25, 2024 — Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back approximately 3,600 years.

Greece is a member of the EU, and so, under the terms of the Maastricht Treaty, the country has to include all public debt in its national debt figures. However, there are some categories of ...