The mystery of the Parthenon’s lighting system, and how ancient Greeks illuminated the statue of Athena, is finally solved in ...

Greece is home to some of the world’s most extraordinary heritage sites. These range from ancient buildings — such as the extraordinary monasteries of Meteora, perched high on sandstone ...

The agoras of the ancient Greek city-states were open areas for people to assemble for everything from political gatherings to public debates. Ancient Agora is the most popular of its kind ...

The Greeks pretty much invented the theatre. Thousands of people packed the hillside arena of ancient Athens to watch plays by famous writers like Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. The Greeks ...

An entire ancient Egyptian settlement from the New Kingdom, also known as the Golden Age of Egypt, surfaced from beneath Greek ruins at the site of Kom el-Nugus near Alexandria Among the artifacts ...

Perched on a hillside on Lefkada, an island off the west coast of Greece, the structure has been ... began around the 4th century B.C.E., when ancient Lefkada was experiencing economic prosperity.