The largest and populous of the Greek islands offers historic stone villas and contemporary homes with views of the Aegean ...

Ancient civilizations often linked powerful animals like lions to cosmic events, aligning their appearances with eclipses, solstices, or even comets. From Mesopotamia to Egypt, the lion was seen not ...

In the early 1900s, the center of Cairo was the cultural heart of the city, with an opera house, gardens and elegant hotels ...

From the world’s largest archaeological space dedicated to a single civilisation to a fascinating deep dive into regional BBQ ...

Perhaps the most iconic Greek artform today, life-sized marble statues began to appear in Greece around the early 6 th ...

The tomb's giant false door. The ancient Egyptians believed that the spirit of the deceased could go in and out through it. . | Credit: Courtesy of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

However, it was not until recently that travelers could see him and the more than 100,000 other ancient treasures held within ... the new museum isn’t meant to replace the Egyptian Museum, a two-floor ...

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

Echoes of Egypt’s ancient design permeate the interiors ... about $24), the museum is well worth celebrating. Its polished floors, clean toilets, high-quality restaurants and well-stocked ...