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 ...

A new study finds that ancient Greek ship names carried symbolic meanings that shaped crew morale and identity in Athens’ ...

This armor wasn't just for show. It could have seen deadly combat during the epic Trojan War.

Abstract: Single image 3D face reconstruction with accurate geometric details is a critical and challenging task due to the similar appearance on the face surface and fine details in organs. In this ...

Each year, this ceremony -- called "Anastenaria" ("sighs" in Greek) -- attracts crowds of visitors. Considered a pagan ritual to honour the ancient Greek gods Dionysus and Artemis, the ancient ...

Under a cloud of incense smoke, a group of men and women in a village in northern Greece swayed slowly to the music before removing their shoes and rushing, barefoot, onto waiting embers. The fire ...

At this Athens workshop, replicating antiquities promotes Greek culture and creates the country’s ultimate souvenirs. Plaster casts of an ancient Greek bust of Sappho, the poetess, are created ...

The statues were rigid, and often standing up straight with neutral facial expressions—this is a far cry from the soft, airy Greek statues we most associate with the ancient culture. By 500 B.C ...

CC BY-SA 4.0. Coming face to face with such ancient masterpieces is almost like getting a direct call from the past. Each find forces us to rethink what ancient Greek sculptures could have actually ...

In a cinematic first, Greek director Yiannis Stravolaimos brings the 490 BCE clash to life in Ancient Greek and Old Persian, fusing myth, history, and cultural diplomacy in a bold retelling of an ...

Juan de Lara By combining archaeology and technology, a researcher has shed light on a longstanding architectural mystery: how the ancient Greeks ... A hypothetical reconstruction of the temple's ...