The legendary ancient Greek courtesan Lais of Corinth was famous for her beauty that left no man resistant to her charms, and her extravagant demands and sharp tongue ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Photo from Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and Media In ancient Greece and Rome ... The city also minted money, and the coins circulated throughout the rest of the empire. Ancient Siscia briefly ...

The city, minting its own money, grew to become one of the most ... Mitchell came upon a slab with a 25-line inscription using ancient Greek script. The retired archaeologist and epigrapher ...

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

The newly reopened market had topped my list of places to go in Greece's second-largest city ... city's once much-larger Jewish population. The money the rent brings in allows the synagogue ...

If you're willing to spend the money, you would be hard ... Referred to by some as "Greece's Pompeii," it features the remains of Ancient Akrotiri that were preserved beneath layers of lava ...

How can we sure Jesus existed? Who did he think he was? What were his intentions? A look at what we know about what happened ...

A capable, clear-eyed sovereign, she knew how to build a fleet, suppress an insurrection, control a currency ... They were in fact Macedonian Greek, which makes Cleopatra about as Egyptian ...

Obol was a Greek currency and was placed in the mouth of dead people as ... An Obol for Charon''. The episode featured an ancient sphere of living and non-living matter, on the verge of exploding and ...