Thonis-Heracleion once thrived at the mouth of the Nile, a vibrant city pulsing with trade and ceremony long before ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

Many of our practices and behaviours go back four thousand years. For example, the Danish archaeologists found evidence that ...

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

An open-air museum filled with sites of antiquity, the Greek capital has a well-earned reputation for being a rewarding ...

An open-air museum filled with sites of antiquity, the Greek capital has a well-earned reputation for being a rewarding ...

Pre-summer is the ideal time to experience the Greek capital at its finest – bathed in sunshine and blissfully free of crowds ...

An exploration of some of the oldest temples in the world, shedding light on the lives of ancient civilizations and their ...

The ecumenical "donation" by the Vatican furthers a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of ...

But then, in the fifth race, with the wind dying, he didn’t finish in the allotted time, which dropped him down to second ...

April 22, Earth Day is celebrated once again as over one billion people help the Earth recover from the ravages of ...

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