The word sycophant has fascinating roots that stem from the ancient Greek fig market. Greek has influenced modern language in ...

The image many have in mind of Greek sculptures—noble looking with a bit of an emptiness about the eyes—might be slightly ...

Researchers also discovered several movable finds, including statues of Aphrodite and clay heads of female figures.

Ancient ideas about diet were grounded in archaic theories about how the body worked. Most Greek and Roman doctors believed that all bodies existed on a spectrum of hot, cold, wet, and dry.

A trio of archaeologists from the University of Barcelona and the University of Castilla-La Mancha, both in Spain, and the ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...

Greek mythology has persisted for thousands of years—long enough to be influenced by even older myths. The half-lion, half-woman Sphinx, for example, dates to ancient Egypt at least 2000 years ...

In ancient Greece, Olympic victors were crowned with olive branches, while Homer referred to the antioxidant-rich juice as “liquid gold” in his epic poems. Today, Greece remains one of the ...

Since 2022, the cliffside gallery has been crowned by Koons’s gilded, 30-foot-diameter Wind Spinner, an image of Apollo, the ancient Greek god of the sun and art, with metal rays rotating around ...

One of the big contentions of popular historian William Dalrymple’s latest book “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World,” which came out in the United States a few weeks ...

It’s going to be a golden time at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral this Memorial Day weekend, as Greek Fest celebrates its 50th anniversary. If you’re among the roughly 19,000 folks ...