The skull of an Ancient Greek girl, believed to be from the Hellenistic period, has been discovered in a cemetery in Patras, ...

Yet the beach was not all bad for the Greeks. Because the beach acted as a bridge between sea and land, the Greeks thought ...

Beach vacations only became popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries as part of the lifestyle of the wealthy in Western ...

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

Dolphins in ancient Greece were revered as messengers of the gods and held a divine dimension that has survived through the ...

Archaeologists in Israel unearthed a 1,700-year-old marble sarcophagus depicting the Greek gods Hercules and Dionysus in a drinking contest near Caesarea. The sarcophagus, dating from the second ...

The death toll from fires raging through parched forests and fields in Greece rose to 60 on Sunday as firefighters and helicopters doused ancient Olympia with water and foam to prevent wildfires ...

This week, a debate in a London hall turned on whether Britain should return ancient Greek sculptures called the Parthenon Marbles, which were removed from the Acropolis in the early 19th century ...