Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

Athens is scrambling to mitigate perilously extreme summer temperatures as it juggles the needs of locals with the millions ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

CHICAGO — At some point in the 17th century, the weathered marble body of a goat ... yet no longer functioning as cult or spiritual objects. The oldest work, a relief sculpture made in the late 5th ...

At the Stanislavsky Electric Theater they stage unusual philosophical plays in which everyone sees something different. And ...

There’s nowhere quite like Athens. The mix of ancient ruins and modern city life is pretty surreal, and the juxtaposition of ...

Bright white buildings, sunlit hills, delicious cuisine, and ancient ruins scattered throughout the city—these are just some ...

Rineia, an ancient Greek island next to Delos and Mykonos ... clearly visible burial structures and marble figures. Further north, an already-excavated, large underground burial structure was cleaned, ...

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

The Corcoran Gallery of Art was adorned with the statues, commissioned in the late 1800s. But since then, they've changed ...