In ancient Greece, Olympic victors were crowned with olive branches, while Homer referred to the antioxidant-rich juice as “liquid gold” in his epic poems. Today, Greece remains one of the ...

While repairing a sewer along Rome's ancient Appian Way, workers came across an incredible discovery: an ancient marble ...

There’s a corner of the internet where ancient Greece, Latin grammar, and classical philosophy collide with chaotic meme ...

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The latest ancient Greek archaeological find to cause a stir is a Hellenistic marble workshop, discovered during a dig on Paros, part of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea. You might not ...

Under a cloud of incense smoke, a group of men and women in a village in northern Greece swayed slowly to the music before removing their shoes and rushing, barefoot, onto waiting embers. The fire ...

An ancient statue depicting the Roman goddess of victory ... She was the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike and was highly revered by the ancient Romans, during times of war she was often ...

#17 Ancient Greek Gold Tiara (Diadem), 325-330 Bc , Demetrias/Thessaly Stathatos Collection Gallery, National Archaeological Museum, Athens Photo: Gsry Todd Image credits: Archeology and art ...

airy Greek statues we most associate with the ancient culture. By 500 B.C., Greek sculptors began imitating the world around them, and glorifying the sensual human form. Even now, ancient Greek ...

The eyes of ancient Greek sculptures possess a timeless stare bridging our worlds. Credit: Credit: George E. Koronaios, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (left), Vicenç Valcárcel Pérez, Wikimedia ...

Juan de Lara By combining archaeology and technology, a researcher has shed light on a longstanding architectural mystery: how the ancient Greeks experienced the inside of the Parthenon ...