The great mass of waters killed many thousands of people by drowning … the lifeless bodies of shipwrecked persons lay ...

Heracleion, a city in Egypt famous for having sunk into the sea, has a fascinating connection to the legend of the Trojan War ...

Ancient Greek temples positioned around the Agora were dedicated to patron gods like Athena for Athens and Zeus for Olympia. These sanctuaries were designed with luxury in mind and decorated with ...

Greek sculptor Dimosthenis Tzanakos has gone above and beyond to use his talents to create a piece honouring the legacy of the many Greeks who made the difficult journey to migrate to Melbourne.

The ruined city of Mystras on the Peloponnese is a stop on almost every cultural tour of Greece, but it can also be explored ...

There are all sorts of theories and speculations about what happened one day in the city of Troy. The legendary battle of ...

Like the Byzantines, whose empire survived on ceremony long after it lost its soul, Nigeria developed the rituals of state ...

The Odyssey' teaser sounded unconventional for a historical epic, but Christopher Nolan has never followed conventions.

Yet the beach was not all bad for the Greeks. Because the beach acted as a bridge between sea and land, the Greeks thought ...

Far beyond the legend and the silver screen, Leonidas was a real king — a Spartan warrior forged by duty, discipline, and ...

A mysterious residue inside a set of ancient Greek pots from Paestum, Italy, has now been identified as honey thanks to ...

The soul house, which dates to around 2055 to 1650 B.C.E., was originally excavated at Deir Rifa, a series of ancient ...