Some scholars trace Valentine's Day back to ancient Greece and the mythical green meadows of Arcadia in the Peloponnese.

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

New research has uncovered the earliest traces of lead contamination caused by human activities, linking the development of ...

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece ...

Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the Ancient Civilizations continues with an episode on ancient racism, as we look if the Ancient Greeks were racist, showing what is in the ...

Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science were greeted more with a blessing than a curse.

A rare "Corinthian" helmet from ancient Greece will go up for auction in London later this month. Such helmets were iconic of the ancient Greek style of infantry fighting and have become emblems ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The organized ...

The discovery of ancient artifacts in surprising places is not uncommon in a country as rich in history and archaeology as Greece. Relics are often unearthed during construction projects ...

even reflecting historical events such as the conquest of Greece by the Romans. The Aegean region gave rise to some of the earliest cultures of ancient Europe. The research team investigated when ...

Discoveries of ancient artifacts are relatively common in Greece, often unearthed during construction projects. A headless statue believed to be 2,000 years old has been found inside a black ...