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The geopolitical importance of Cyprus has been both a blessing and a curse, sparking centuries of conflict over control of ...
The Macedonian tomb of Stavroupolis stands as the largest, and best-preserved example of its kind in Greece's Thrace.
A theater that once overlooked ancient Lefkada in Greece is seeing the light of day more than a century after its initial ...
The island hopping is incredible, but Greece's ancient ruins, ski resorts, wineries, thermal pools, and pristine beaches ...
Amid serene olive groves, I meandered through Greece’s ghostly ruins of ancient Sparta, its archeological rubble ... in a semi-circle structure to hear recorded dolphin sounds. Next door, in the domed ...
In the Triumph of Orthodoxy service on the first Sunday of Great Lent, the clergy and faithful proclaim – with many shouting – bold statements of faith from the year 787, after decades of persecution.
Or perhaps you know someone who swears they can still hear their childhood cat moving around the house, scratching at the door at night ... been the case. In ancient Greece and Rome, you might ...
In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.
Ancient city The ruins of Megiddo are now in a national park about 18 miles (30 kilometers) southeast of Haifa. Megiddo was a strategically important city at a crossroads on trade and military ...
The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...
Greek government debt raised to investment grade by Moody's, closing the door on a painful era “ upgrade marks the closing of a great cycle for the Greek economy and certifies the country’s ...