Each year, this ceremony -- called "Anastenaria" ("sighs" in Greek) -- attracts crowds of visitors. Considered a pagan ritual to honour the ancient Greek gods Dionysus and Artemis, the ancient ...

The Greek Ministry of Culture has announced that archaeologists have fully uncovered the ancient Greek theater of Lefkada, the first such monument ever discovered in Greece’s Ionian islands.

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York ...

Discoveries of ancient artifacts are relatively common in Greece, often unearthed during construction projects. A headless statue believed to be 2,000 years old has been found inside a black ...

Here’s how it works. A rare "Corinthian" helmet from ancient Greece will go up for auction in London later this month. Such helmets were iconic of the ancient Greek style of infantry fighting ...

Koumartzis, 41, is continuing a family tradition focusing on making replicas of ancient Greek musical instruments based on old images on frescoes and vases going back centuries. Sign up here.

A yearslong construction project for a new subway system in Thessaloniki, Greece, has unveiled thousands of ancient artifacts, many of which have been incorporated into the metro station's design ...

"There's a lot of Greek suffering hovering over London at ... The action unfurls not in ancient Thebes, said Sarah Hemming in the Financial Times, but in a modern-day suburban home, where King ...

Would ancient Egyptians recognize these rules? Who knows. A reconstruction of the ancient Greek board game pente grammai. First played: Earlier than 600 B.C.E. Who played it: Ancient Greeks.

A marble statue of the Greek god Hermes was discovered in an ancient Roman sewer in southwestern Bulgaria. The 6-foot-8 statue, a Roman copy of an ancient Greek original, is reportedly in “very ...