The era in which Strabo lived, the saddle between the first centuries bc and ad, was highly receptive to kolossourgiai. The ...

The challenge of unearthing lost things and solving inscrutable puzzles is a driving force in the world of science. Such breakthroughs rarely happen in the derring-do fashion of the “Indiana Jones” ...

Scholars are decoding an ancient scroll that was one of hundreds charred to a crisp during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...

and why the New Testament is written in Greek,” says Cartledge. While he was hated by many Athenians, who believed in ...

Chinese New Year's Eve. Amid the festive cheer, the snake -- a symbol that carries intricate cultural significance in both Eastern and Western traditions -- is shaking off its negative connotations ...

This unique degree programme offers training in an unparalleled range of ancient languages and their associated history, culture and textual traditions. Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin ...

In December, construction workers putting in natural gas pipelines near Athens found a Roman-era statue of the ancient Greek god Hermes buried upright in a brick-lined pit near the Acropolis of ...

each named after a letter from the Greek alphabet, tell you how options contracts will react under different market conditions. While the term might evoke images of ancient philosophers ...

A marble statue of a woman, believed to be more than 2,000 years old, was found abandoned in a garbage bag near the Greek city of Thessaloniki ... a country renowned for its ancient heritage ...

18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with an unusual ... how it could have wound up in the garbage. The discovery of ancient artifacts in surprising places is not uncommon in a country ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375 BC, has shaped western political thought. Greece is now known as the “cradle of democracy”.

Author and historian Patrick Garner examines the different periods and styles of ancient Greek pottery and delves into the strange effigies of the Olympic god Hermes which were used in ways few ...