This view of the Corinthia, the area immediately surrounding the Greek city of Corinth, was painted by German artist Carl Rottmann in 1847. Greece’s unique shape makes it one of the most recognizable ...

The ancient Greeks had a reputation for holding wild parties. But that’s not the only way to party like an ancient Greek.

Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, explored ancient myths and folklore about creating automation, artificial ...

Athens is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It has been a place of human settlement for at least ...

At first glance, it looks like someone enjoyed taking the spaces out of a sentence; in reality, it's a single word by ...

"Xmas" is not a modern attempt to remove Christ from Christmas but a sacred abbreviation rooted in early Christian tradition, using the Greek letter chi to represent "Christos." ...

The Greek letters have been removed from a London fraternity house where six people were injured in a fire last week. Officials from city hall and the London Fire Department had returned on Tuesday to ...

Archaeologists uncovered a basalt tablet in the Bashplemi Lake region of Georgia with an unknown language carved into its face. The tablet featured 60 characters across seven rows. Experts said that ...

“Every man can tell how many goats and sheep he possesses but not how many friends”. Marcus Tullius Cicero Titus Pomponius was neutral both in character and in policy. Perhaps this was his natural ...

What do secret societies, infectious diseases, and male dominance hierarchies have in common? They all make use of a symbol system that was first developed over 2,500 years ago. Since that time, it ...