Ancient Greek trireme warships, which had three banks of oarsmen, were so effective that they enabled the rise of Athens as a ...

The first depiction of an ancient Greek clinic is on a vase created in Athens circa 470 BC. The vase is on display at the ...

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 ...

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Each year, this ceremony -- called "Anastenaria" ("sighs" in Greek) -- attracts crowds of visitors. Considered a pagan ritual to honour the ancient Greek gods Dionysus and Artemis, the ancient ...

Under a cloud of incense smoke, a group of men and women in a village in northern Greece swayed slowly to the music before removing their shoes and rushing, barefoot, onto waiting embers.

The Temple of Hera, home to the frontrunner of the Olympic Games, is one of the oldest religious sanctuaries in Greece. Lighting ceremony of the Olympic flame for the 2018 Winter Olympics in ...

Part of a terra sigillate type vase with embossed theatrical mask. Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture These earlier phases, dated between the late 5th and 4th centuries BC, show a clear residential ...

Juan de Lara By combining archaeology and technology, a researcher has shed light on a longstanding architectural mystery: how the ancient Greeks experienced the inside of the Parthenon ...

Particularly notable is the identification of a room with a pebbled floor and wall frescoes imitating marble—likely an andron, a formal space for entertaining male guests in ancient Greek ...