Researchers speculate the ancient Greek Dragon Houses may have been used as temples, astronomical observatories, or storage ...

The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.

The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece.

The Temple of Hera, home to the predecessor of the Olympic Games, is one of the oldest religious sanctuaries in Greece.

A recent excavation at the Floga site in Parikia, Paros, has brought to light a remarkable Hellenistic-era sculpture workshop ...

These megalithic marvels are known as Dragon Houses and there are 23 of them on the island, mostly in the regions of Mount ...

Piazza San Gaetano, the heart of the ancient agora. The Dioscuri, like ghosts, watch from afar what remains of their ...

"This is Sparta!" (The pit didn’t have guardrails. Ancient Greece predates OSHA.) The somewhat historical hit meant that men were suddenly thinking of Rome and Greece. Ex-Washington Post ...

Countless people around the world have been captivated by ancient Egypt since Roman times, but especially after King Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered in 1922, Egyptomania spread across Europe and the ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

From Vikings to Beethoven: what your DNA says about your ancient relatives Phoenician city-states shared languages — recorded with an alphabet that was a precursor to Greek and Latin letters ...