Ancient Greece

Covering 2,500 years, ‘The Killing Ground’ documents the history, unravels the myths, and explores the natural fortress of Thermopylae.

With history peeking out of every corner, it's important to know which sites are really worth seeing.

A century and a half ago, Athens was a humble, forgotten city of about 8,000 people. Today, one ...

Commentary Previous installments in this series have covered four Greek scholars whose thoughts helped shape the U.S. Constitution. ...

Have you ever heard someone describe something as sublime? Over the past 2,000 years, this lofty term has ...

The coronavirus is concentrating our minds on the fragility of human existence in the face of a deadly ...

Josiah Wedgwood spent his life perfecting the art of pottery, establishing 260 years ago the company that bears ...

Helen Valentine, a senior curator at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, shares how and why the ...

Helen Valentine, senior curator at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, shares her short talk on the ...

The great ancient Greek philosopher Socrates (470–399 B.C.) believed that self-sufficiency is the key to a good life. ...

“Go back to ancient Greece.” The words came to Maria Benardis in answer to a prayer. Deeply ill, ...

Underwater archaeologists made an extremely rare discovery at the world-famous Antikythera shipwreck site in Greece—the 2,000-year-old remains of ...

The ancient Babylonians were the first to use sophisticated geometry – a staggering 1,400 years before it was ...

Imagine you are in battle, probably scared out of your wits, and then enemy troops start flinging snakes ...

Elaborate sensory manipulation made the Nekromanteion a spooky place.

Archaeologists have uncovered a labyrinth in India that dates back 2,000 years and has a pattern similar to ...

The ancient Greek myth of Cadmus battling a snake could be an allegory for the discovery of the ...

Some ancient Greeks feared the rising dead, some called on them for favors.

Hesiod's description of the ancient Greek dwelling place of gorgons seems to match the mysterious labyrinth ruins of ...

People in ancient times had more advanced levels of scientific understanding than we commonly give them credit for.

The mysterious metal spoken of in ancient Greece, said to glimmer with a reddish light in Atlantis, may ...

Slightly over-indulged in wine this festive season? Suffering from throbbing headache, dry mouth, and nausea after the office ...

One of the earliest references to the use of chemical weapons in Western literature can be found in ...

Along the shores of Israel's Mediterranean coast, in the ancient seaport of Ashkelon, archaeologist Ross Voss made a ...

We've lost the secret to making some of history's most useful inventions, and for all of our ingenuity ...

It's not that we should necessarily treat the obstacles we encounter as enemies that must be destroyed—but sometimes ...

Imagine you’re in an ancient temple, dimly lit by rays of sunlight peaking in. A worshipper lights a ...