Take Greek mythology, for example: those stories are timeless because we constantly refer to myths and stories of Ancient Greece to make sense of contemporary events. From Fate & Fabled ...

When was Ancient Greece? How did ancient Greece begin? The first Olympic games and new discoveries How was Greece ruled? Activities About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important ...

has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece -- New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago ...

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 ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy - and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean ...

The findings come from a study of bone tools discovered at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and dated to around 1.5 million years ago. The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old ...

One major reason why ancient Greece was dominated by small city-states and independent towns, rather than by one all-powerful king, is its geography. The country's mountainous terrain, many ...

Professor Alice Roberts takes to the railways of Greece and Turkey as she learns about ancient Greek civilisation, which has had a powerful effect on modern life. In the northern Greek city of ...

An international team of underwater archaeologists has recently completed a new phase of excavations at the submerged site of Asini, near the coastal village of Tolo, in Argolis, Greece. The research, ...