Perhaps Greece’s most compelling image is that of blue-domed churches looking out to sea from picturesque cliff-side perches.

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

Heavy rains struck southern Jordan on Sunday afternoon, triggering flash floods that poured into Petra’s narrow rock-carved ...

In ancient Greece where generals and statesmen relied on spying to reveal the intentions and capabilities of their ...

Take a gently paced coastal road trip from Kalamata in the southern Peloponnese to Parga in Epirus to experience ancient ...

The prehistoric crocodile relative may have tolerated both freshwater and saltwater habitats, allowing it to conquer North ...

Ancient Greece is traditionally remembered for its philosophy, mythology, and great buildings—but there's a lesser-known side ...

Built on top of rocks in the Meteora region in northern Greece, the Meteora monasteries have attracted the attention of believers and nature lovers for centuries. Meteora is a complex of six Orthodox ...

Fragments of the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek analog computer that is believed to be used to help teach Greeks about our place in the cosmos. Credit: National Archaeological Museum ...

Thucydides fought in the Peloponnesian War on the Athenian side. His world was steeped in the sensibilities of Greek tragedy, and his historical narrative carries that imprint throughout.

The variation that the researchers found challenges long-held views across history and the social sciences that we can use ancient Greece and Rome, or the medieval history of Europe as generalized ...