Tourism was widespread in ancient Greece, largely driven by the major sporting events of the Panhellenic Games held at Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, and Nemea. Thousands from all over Greece and the Greek ...

A mysterious inscription on an ancient Sphinx that puzzled scientists for decades has finally been deciphered as written in ...

The heady world of the early Christians began with Jewish followers of Jesus and later became dominated by Romans attracted ...

The site is associated with an ancient city of the Achaea region. Investigations primarily focused on a building referred to by the Greek letter gamma ("Γ") that appears to date to before 300 B.C ...

Well, actually, it’s ancient, and experts can’t even read ... including “some similarities with Phoenician, Aramaic, and Greek alphabets [that] are not surprising as their role in the ...

Back then, the "X" wasn't meant to be pronounced as "ecks" like we do today, but rather as its Greek counterpart, "chi." Chi, the first letter of the Greek word Χριστός (Christos), meaning "(Jesus) ...

Well, actually, it’s ancient, and experts can’t even read it yet ... But there are also likenesses to Bronze Age Georgian symbols, including “some similarities with Phoenician, Aramaic, and Greek ...

Not all Britons, of course – but it was not a small contingent who took ancient Greece and Rome with them to the subcontinent. In part, Classics was an affectation; speaking Latin was a sign that you ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered for decadent banquets called symposia. Not only an occasion for thinking and philosophizing, the symposium was also a place for enjoying women ...