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

Ancient people of Mount Athos, Greece probably owed their longevity to their bizarre eating habits. Let's take a look at the ...

Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine ...

A 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook Mount Athos in northeastern Greece late on Saturday afternoon, generating concerns.

Mount Athos is home to twenty monasteries where only monks are allowed to live and only males are allowed to visit, women are ...

Many ancient Greek philosophers dreamed up paradoxes to prove their theories, but one ancient thinker, Zeno, stands out above ...

The Chronicle of the Morea is the history of 14th-century Greece, specifically the Peloponnese -- once called the Morea.

Alexander the Great is said to have rejected a colossal Mount Athos project that could have been the eighth wonder of the ...

Myths have had a huge influence on the world. Although they may not be true, the events of Greek myth may have taken place in ...

Three more Israeli hostages were released by armed Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, marking the sixth exchange for ...

A bioarchaeological investigation has revealed that the quality of life in the countryside was better than city life in the ...

The Lovers of Valdaro, an ancient Stone Age couple entwined in an eternal embrace, have been discovered in an archaeological ...