Ancient Greek sculptor Polykleitos set the standard of beauty and harmony in statues with his groundbreaking Canon of ...

Aspasia was born in Greece in the fifth century BC. She and Pericles, the great general and politician, fell deeply in love.

The ancient Greek society was a complex mix of ingenuity, brutality, eccentricities and practices that you may define as cultural rites that often fall outside of contemporary expectations. Of the ...

Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...

The engraved marble fragment likely came from an archaic temple called the Hekatompedon, making it around 2,600 years old ...

But the visibility will be short-lived. The Parthenon is visible without scaffolding for the first time in 20 years. “It is like [visitors] are seeing…a completely different monument,” said Greece’s ...

The Parthenon has been under conservation for decades. The Parthenon’s scaffolding is being temporarily removed after 20 years for unobstructed viewing. Lina Mendoni says, “It is like [visitors] are ...

Throughout time some people are remembered after they die for their achievements. But some individuals are celebrated both in life and death and they are especially important. What archaeologists ...

COLMAR, PA. (WPVI) -- It's a family business between husband and wife, Dimitri and Leticia Samaras, and Dimitri's mother, Christina Samaras. Every week, they produce their three staple flavors called ...

A German woman who stole the top of an ancient column in Olympia over half a century ago has returned it to Greece, the Greek culture ministry said Saturday. The capital of the column, made of ...

An interview with the conservationist is the first in a new series, “Famous Last Words.” More episodes are in the vault, their subjects unknown, for now. By Matt Stevens Matt Stevens first spoke with ...

In other words, you’re constantly battling the feeling that there’s simply not enough time. But what if you could reframe the way you think about time? Well, you can. It involves learning a little ...