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Discovery of ancient Greek shepherd’s graffiti rewrites Athens history
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoIt is known that an invading Persian army in 480 BC destroyed buildings erected in the Acropolis of...
A 13-year-old built Archimedes’ death ray
BGR· 17 hours agoThousands of years ago, Ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes posited that a death ray could be created to harness the power of the Sun. Now, a...
Mysterious ancient graffiti may reveal lost temple at Athens Acropolis
Newsweek· 6 days agoA mysterious example of ancient Greek graffiti may reveal the existence of a lost temple at the...
Is The Founder Of The Modern Olympics Being Cancelled?
International Business Times· 5 hours agoInspired by William Penny Brookes' Wenlock Olympian Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin almost...
The 10 most expensive silver items featured on 'Antiques Roadshow'
Stacker via AOL· 3 hours agoThe image on the side is Flaxman's interpretation of the work ofancient Greek poet Theocritus. If...
In a Greek jail, inmates find freedom in theatre
Reuters· 3 days agoThe performers were inmates at Greece’s maximum-security jail, and so was the audience. The play - ancient Greek tragedy ‘Antigone’, a story about free...
Adolf Hitler, Jesse Owens and Berlin's Olympiastadion: the complicated history of Euro 2024 final...
New York Times· 7 days agoThe showpiece final of this summer’s European Championship, likely to attract a worldwide television audience in excess of 300 million people, will be played on July 14 at the Olympiastadion ...
I spent every summer in Greece as a kid. Here are 7 places to visit that aren't Santorini, Mykonos,...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 days agoCorfu is a must-visit destination in Greece.Maniscule/Getty Images My parents are both Greek, and...
Call for ‘looted’ Roman antiquities to be pulled from auction
Daily Telegraph· 5 days agoIn 2020, Sotheby’s lost its legal challenge and Greece’s culture minister described the court’s...
Magnificent ancient site "doomed to disappear" as sea levels rise
Newsweek· 3 days agoWhile it only covers an area of roughly 1.3 square miles, Delos is considered to be one of the most...