The tradition of wearing a red and white thread bracelet, known as "Martis" or "Martaki" in Greece, marks the arrival of ...

The National Gallery is an art museum located on Vasilisis Sofias avenue in Athens, Greece. It is devoted to Greek and European art ...

For over 2,500 years, the olive tree of the Acropolis has remained a worthy symbol of Athens, an undying and ancient ...

Cleisthenes was the statesman who laid the foundations of democracy in ancient Athens by dividing Attica into ten tribes by location.

In Athens, the fifth century BC served as a period in which art and thought flourished, and it defines our image of Ancient ...

Art from ancient Thrace is often flashy and brusque, as befits a warrior tribe. The archaic society was known for the prowess ...

The Cradle of Western Architecture Athens is like a time machine that transports you back to the very roots of Western architecture. Often called the birthplace of civilization, Athens is an open-air ...

The few that could be opened were philosophical texts written in ancient Greek. But most of the scrolls were so badly damaged, they were considered illegible. More recently, researchers managed to ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Earthquakes rattled Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini every few minutes overnight and into Wednesday ...

London — Tourists continued to flee the Greek island of Santorini on Wednesday — a fourth consecutive day of exodus sparked by a series of earthquakes that have rattled the incredibly popular ...

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

The second was posed in the eighteenth century, when scholars noticed similarities between classical Greek and Latin and Sanskrit, an ancient language from South Asia, and suggested a common origin.