Waves crash across Ithaca's rocky shore.“The city of Troy has fallen,” we are told, as the shuttle on Penelope's loom ...

As SL’s senior interiors and homes editor, Georgina Blaskey has her finger on the pulse of the design world. From a ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

The Greek municipality of Tenea boasts a rich ancient history—and the archaeological artifacts to prove it. Finds in the region have long hinted at a once-thriving settlement, with the latest ...

The cradle of Western civilization birthed democracy, philosophy, theatre, and the Olympic Games. It’s a place that has captured the imagination of travelers for millennia. And yet for all that ...

New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to be unearthed. A Danish study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology in March found that statues in antiquity ...

Ancient Greece gave us many things, from mythology to democracy by way of the Olympics, but if I recall my (very) old primary-school project correctly, one thing Archimedes and pals never got ...

Schliemann's haul from Troy, on view at the Neues Museum in Berlin Public domain via Wikimedia Commons But whether the ancient residents of Troy truly sipped wine out of these goblets has long ...

A powerful storm in the Aegean Sea has triggered flash flooding on the Greek holiday island of Paros. Torrential rain in the tourist towns of Parikia and Naousa caused floodwaters that surged ...

An Athens museum has invited people of African descent in Greece to tell their stories for an innovative exhibition about communities that are still largely ignored by Greek society. In a dark ...

Scotland survived an onslaught from Greece in Athens as Scott McTominay’s first-half penalty proved enough to take a one-goal lead back to Hampden in their Nations League relegation play-off.

The Greek sea god Poseidon is said to have sat on Mount Fengari here — at 1,664m, the second highest in the Aegean — to watch the Trojan War, while in ancient times, numerous pilgrims would ...