The city of Kavala in northern Greece, which rises up from the sea like an amphitheater, is a gem waiting to be explored for ...

Greece has about 6000 islands, 230 of which are inhabited. Here is a map explaining all of the Greek island groups.

Elsewhere, Antoaneta Pateva’s recent trip to Thassos, the northernmost major Greek island in the Aegean ... turquoise water and ancient history. Embroidered with golden beaches, traditional ...

An announcement on June 9 from the Greek Ministry of Culture cites the discovery of a rare underground spring cistern dating ...

The team now believe the Agios Athanasios is the previously-referenced site of the Odysseion—the center of a cult of hero ...

The latest ancient Greek archaeological find to cause a stir is a Hellenistic marble workshop, discovered during a dig on Paros, part of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea. You might not ...

In ancient Greece, Olympic victors were crowned with olive branches, while Homer referred to the antioxidant-rich juice as “liquid gold” in his epic poems. Today, Greece remains one of the ...

These spectacular stone structures represent some of the most significant depictions of the religious and funerary practices of an ancient society that drew on both its Greek and Persian heritage.

The events of the Trojan War are written about in a number of works of Ancient Greek literature, including Homer’s epic poem The Iliad, which is at least 2,500 years old. The cause of war is ...

As Holiday says: “If Stoicism is making you an asshole, you’re doing it wrong.” Rough number of ancient philosophers associated with Stoicism, beginning around the third century B.C. In ...

The largest and most populous of the Greek islands offers historic stone ... Ligaria is surrounded by traditional villages and the ruins of ancient civilizations. Larger cultural sites, such ...