All those perfume and chocolate ads on the TV can only mean one thing: it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. If that ...

During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great powers of Classical Greece. When in 431 bc the Peloponnesian War broke out, ...

Comedy goddess Dawn French joins Richard in Athens for some ancient history, doughnuts, molecular food, ouzo, and a radical pedicure involving a toothless fish. Huge Brazilian raid on Rio gang leaves ...

Some ancient artifacts travel from where they were first made to become symbols of other foreign lands. This is certainly the story of the Piraeus Lion. The Piraeus Lion is a marble lion displayed in ...

Archaeologists excavating in Greece have uncovered a historic Piraeus port aqueduct and wells that date back over 2000 years, and about 4000 objects, many of them wooden, have been unearthed as part ...

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 ...

The ancient Greek sanctuaries served as places of worship and also as centers of business activity. Photo of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi Credit: qweay qweay CC BY 3.0 Ancient Greek sanctuaries were ...

Olive oil has shaped ancient Greek mythology, history, and philosophy for more than 7,000 years, according to new research published in the International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science. Lead ...