Laconic Greek, the dialect once spoken by the ancient Spartans, is one of the most fascinating examples of linguistic ...

What did the ancient Greeks and Egyptians call the pyramids, and what did these ancient words originally mean?

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The Greek community has joined global Orthodox voices urging Egypt to protect the historic autonomy of Saint Catherine’s ...

By Philippa TracyAs I struggle in Alpha Mega with my Google translate app in one hand, hovering over the instructions on a tin of Mr Muscle oven cleaner in the other, I do wonder if my Greek should be ...

Ostracism is an ancient democratic tradition practiced in Athens that offers an alternative approach of imprisoning political ...

Spelling coach Scott Remer has 27 students competing in the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee. One was the runner-up last year.

Greek mythology has persisted for thousands of years—long enough to be influenced by even older myths. The half-lion, half-woman Sphinx, for example, dates to ancient Egypt at least 2000 years ...

Sister Francis Dominici Piscatella, the world’s oldest nun at 112, has four words of advice for anyone ... her golden years on the South Shore of Long Island in her 94th year of service to ...

A Greek court handed down multi-year sentences against three people standing trial in connection with the 2017 sinking of a bunkering tanker near Athens. Court documents have not been officially ...

José Mujica—the former guerrilla fighter, political prisoner, philosopher, and Uruguayan President, known affectionately throughout Latin America as Pepe—died on Tuesday, at the age of eighty ...