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The Greek poet Crinagoras of Mytilene (1st century BC–1st century AD) once addressed a little poem to an earthquake. He asked ...

A tourist, a half-naked modern "Hercules" tries to impress his partner by lifting an ancient marble at the archaeological site of Naxos.

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

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By Zhou Tongsu and Shang Bing At the foot of the Acropolis in Athens, there are two statues standing face to face in the ...

Many of us are heading to the beach to bask in the sun and unwind as part of our summer vacations. Research has shown that ...

Rhapsodes were the master storytellers of Ancient Greece who memorized and performed thousands of lines of Homer's works.

An ancient garden in Pompeii has been reconstructed with 800 antique roses and 1,200 violets near the House of the Garden of Hercules, a Roman dwelling from the third century B.C.