Aegina’s Temple of Aphaea dazzles anew with new lighting that celebrates its ancient Greek beauty and revives the island’s ...
Ancient Greeks were ahead of the curve in a lot of ways—including, it seems, issues of accessibility. A new archaeological study has found that stone ramps on some ancient buildings were likely built ...
Ancient Greeks living in Sicily built their sacred temples to face the rising sun, new research suggests. Almost all of the temples constructed on the island of Sicily during its Greek period over ...
Archaeologists have uncovered two "exceptional" temples in a major ancient Greek city that changed hands several times over the centuries and whose history stretches back around 2,600 years. The ...
The hills around Vari, 10 miles southeast of Athens, are etched with the musings of bored shepherds. The more than 2,000 graffiti (and counting) feature trireme warships, speeding horses, packs of ...
When 77-year-old Chilean engineer Enrico Tosti-Croce heard on the radio that Greece was fighting for marble sculptures from ...
Explore the ancient ruins of Paestum, Italy, a once-glorious Greek city with well-preserved temples, standing as a testament ...
With the famed ruins of Pompeii looming large in people’s imaginations, many of Italy’s smaller and lesser-known ancient sites often are overlooked. One such place is Paestum, a long-ago Greek colony ...
Americans fell head over heels for Greece during the first half of the 19th century. Its democratic ideals, its art and literature, and its role in civilizing the ancient world inspired Americans as ...