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Discovery of ancient Greek shepherd’s graffiti rewrites Athens history
The Independent via Yahoo News· 4 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· 16 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· 4 hours agoInspired by William Penny Brookes' Wenlock Olympian Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin almost...
Adolf Hitler, Jesse Owens and Berlin's Olympiastadion: the complicated history of Euro 2024 final...
New York Times· 6 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 ...
The 10 most expensive silver items featured on 'Antiques Roadshow'
Stacker via AOL· 2 hours agoThe image on the side is Flaxman's interpretation of the work ofancient Greek poet Theocritus. If...
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...
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...
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...