Ancient Greece is traditionally remembered for its philosophy, mythology, and great buildings—but there's a lesser-known side ...

The elite women of ancient Greece and Rome regularly used cosmetics, a custom that was adopted from the ancient Egyptians.

The earliest known Jesus mosaic inscription declaring Jesus as God, the Megiddo mosaic, was found under a prison in Israel.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, carved into ...

Back in ancient Greece, women were expected to be “all-natural,” therefore not wearing any kind of makeup. However, it didn’t always work out that way. This was the case when it came to women’s ...

Ancient Greek marble grave relief of a family, dating to the 1st century BC, from the Athens area. Credit: Gary Todd, Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0. But let’s not romanticize antiquity. While men debated ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved ... In my new book, Mythica, which looks at the women not of Rome but of Bronze age Greece, I’ve found that new ...

It was a better night for the Republic of Ireland, who beat Greece 4-0 in Crete ... to earn a crucial 4-0 win over Greece in the Uefa Women's Nations League in Heraklion. Ireland manager Carla ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Lefkada has unveiled the first-ever ancient Greek theater in the Ionian Islands, shedding light on a rich part of Greece’s history. The site had been obscured by olive ...

In a historic revival of Hellenic worship, a newly built temple dedicated to the ancient Greek gods Zeus and Pan has been unveiled in Arcadia. This marks the first such construction in nearly 1,700 ...

Once yelled at women seen to be pestering or annoying ... is derived from a group of monstrous female figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. In Greek and Roman myth, the harpies ...