For over a thousand years, people from across the Mediterranean flocked to the temple of Eleusis in Greece to take part in a ritual so secretive that anyone caught talking about it was immediately ...

Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity explores the connections between Irish myths and modern stories and the classical ...

The Lelantine War may have been one of the only wars in ancient Greece to involve multiple cities, but did it really happen?

Discovered in a Mediterranean shipwreck in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism stunned historians with its intricate system of interlocking bronze gears dating back to around 100 BC. X-ray imaging later ...

Archaeologists in Greece may have made a fascinating discovery in an ancient palace on the island of Crete. Citing Greece’s Ministry of Culture, ANA-MPA reports that the room was discovered during ...

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

(The Root) — This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for ...

As Greece feels the impact of overtourism due to rising visitor numbers, it’s still possible to find idyllic, lesser-visited ...

In impromptu remarks delivered following the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy called on Americans to “tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of ...