In Ancient Greece, professional curse writers were employed to hex the living and the dead from beyond the grave.

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

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

Greece's Delphi oracle is the inspiration behind an immersive art installation by data artist Charles Sandison that's aimed ...

She made the discovery after immersing herself in the works of Roman writers like Cicero and inscriptions on ancient Greek temples. In Delos, Greece, temple inscriptions show that some statues ...

In ancient Greece, education wasn’t limited to the mind — it included the body as well. Physical fitness and scholarly pursuits went hand-in-hand, a principle reflected in the number of gymnasiums ...

After a century-long wait, an excavation has finally revealed the only ancient theatre on Greece's Ionian Islands. Ancient Lefkada’s theatre was first discovered in 1901, but it took until now ...

His private collection included glass and clay vases, relief tiles adorned with mythological scenes ... The Strangford Apollo is an ancient Greek sculpture of a nude boy, with the arms and lower legs ...

The researchers have also estimated that construction on the theater began around the 4th century B.C.E., when ancient Lefkada was experiencing economic prosperity. “Although damaged by time ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so ... and surmounted by the astonishing relief sculpture of the woman and man. They're standing side by side, but not touching.

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for ... and surmounted by the astonishing relief sculpture of the woman and man. They’re standing side by side, but not ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient ... a funerary relief, the ...