The Yedi Kule castle, also known by its Greek name Eptapyrgio ("Seven Towers") was a prison where communist sympathizers were tortured and executed during Greece's 1946-49 Civil War and immediately ...

Archaeologists recently excavated an ancient workshop on Paros, Greece, revealing unfinished sculptures and intriguing artifacts from the Classical period.

Local officials say another series of unmarked graves — this one containing 14 individuals — has been dug up in a park in the ...

Ancient Greek mercenaries were a ubiquitous force on the battlefields of the ancient Mediterranean where they fought for ...

When ancient Greek geographer Pausanias sat down under the shade of a giant vine, he was unaware that it was probably the ...

In ancient Greece, Olympic victors were crowned with olive branches, while Homer referred to the antioxidant-rich juice as “liquid gold” in his epic poems. Today, Greece remains one of the ...

Crowds flock to Rome and Athens to see incredibly preserved ancient artifacts, and these similarly awe-inspiring ruins in ...

One summer day in 1986, while digging at one of England’s most famous archaeological sites, a team of researchers uncovered ...

Sarcophagus of the Spouses, one of the most celebrated artifacts of Etruscan art will undergo a restoration in full view of ...