These mortar-fee constructions are thought to date back to the Preclassical period of Ancient Greece, the classical period beginning around 490 BC. They have stood, pretty much intact, for more than ...

A remarkable collection of Ancient Greek treasures, led by a stunning marble head of a goddess, is set to be auctioned in New ...

The term in Greek architecture refers to a freestanding ... and fragments of ceramic pieces believed to date back to the Classical-Hellenistic period. Some artifacts appeared to come from a ...

The Milesian School was based in Miletus and produced three great thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient Greece.

An archaeological dig on the island of Paros, renowned for its marble, has discovered an ancient Greek sculpture workshop.

The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It was a long stretch of time that spanned from ...

This period is known by historians as the Archaic ... Historians call this Classical Greece. Image caption, The Parthenon temple was built for the Greek goddess Athena. It sits on top of a hill ...

The recent excavation discovered an “androna”—a social space in Greek houses designated exclusively for men. Researchers also ...

The ancient period covered at least 12 centuries from 776 BC when the first Olympic Games was held in Greece to AD 339 when the Roman emperor Theodosius the Great prohibited the Olympic Games as a ...

(Ancient Olympics had "spectacular" opening ceremonies.) Gardiner maintained that there were two emphatically different stages in the history of Greek sport: a pure initial period in which ...