In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

Excavated from a nearly 2,000-year-old villa in Valencia, Spain, the broken-up murals once formed fresco decor ...

The city which was the art capital of the Western and Mediterranean world for millennia still has much to offer…this time by ...

And so for a quick refresh to the walls, here are 6 wall paintings and styles that will breathe life into any home. To breathe life into your home and a sense of spirituality, a Buddha painting is ...

Created by digital artist Juanjo Ortega G., the digital reconstruction depicts a woman who died in her mid-30s during the ...

The lecture hall was discovered during excavations at Agrigento, the site of the largest ancient Greek settlement in Sicily. Photo by Thomas Lappi and Monika Trümper, FU Berlin, Institute of ...

In ancient Greece, education wasn’t limited to the mind — it included the body as well. Physical fitness and scholarly pursuits went hand-in-hand, a principle reflected in the number of gymnasiums ...

Perched on a hillside on Lefkada, an island off the west coast of Greece, the structure has been ... began around the 4th century B.C.E., when ancient Lefkada was experiencing economic prosperity.

Here Mithridates murdered the Greek generals, here Xenophon began to have his command, and just beyond the Zab [River] the Greeks turned and defeated the archers of Mithridates, marching then on ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

Credit: Christos Simatos/Greek Ministry of Cuture/National Hellenic Research Foundation The imposing, ancient wall painting that has been decorating the entrance of King Philip of Macedon’s tomb in ...