Ancient Rome maintains a grip on pop culture, from Hollywood blockbusters to video games. Since its establishment in 31 B.C., the Roman Empire exerted its influence throughout the Mediterranean and ...

Throughout the centuries, the mythical Stone Tower has been a fascinating enigma for geographers, historians, and archaeologists worldwide. This location is mentioned in Claudius Ptolemy’s Geography ...

The European Academy of Sciences and Arts has elected renowned Greek director Yannis Smaragdis as a full member.

Giannis Smaragdis was born in 1946 in Heraklion, Crete. He studied directing in Greece and Paris. He debuted in 1972 with the ...

From the expansive Mauryan Empire, which laid the brass tacks for a unified India, to the culturally rich Gupta Empire, maps ...

Greece and other EU member-states are getting ready to set their clocks back an hour as daylight savings time (DST) comes to ...

Eventually, nine muses were identified, covering every branch of the arts, in the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s introduction to Theogony, his epic poem about mythical stories and characters (circa ...

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Armed with new tools, scholars are finally able to read papyrus scrolls long deemed too fragile to open. The breakthrough ...

The man, who has not been identified, was found in the Vouraikos gorge in Kalavryta after his friends called emergency ...

One user posted: "'What's the capital of Greece? ' Malik 'Rome'," while another quipped: "Rome is a Greek city, is it? #TippingPoint." Another added: "Ah yes, that well-known Greek capital city ...