For long stretches of history, this World Heritage site was one of the most important places in the Greek world. It’s been ...

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Was the Kraken a sea monster in Greek mythology? If not, where did it come from and what was its ancient Greek counterpart?

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For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of ...

Nymphs offer us more than just stories of sexy nature spirits. They can reveal how ancient people thought about their world ...

Artemis is generally known as the ancient Greek goddess of hunting; however, she was a deity with various cults associated ...

Cosmo Jarvis has been replaced by Logan Marshall-Green in Christopher Nolan's Greek epic 'The Odyssey' due to scheduling ...

A recent social media claim that Albanian is the oldest Indo-European language still in use has been debunked as ...

Melody Andorfer was the winner of the first official Nathan’s contest in 1972, according to the Coney Island History Project.

From the pyramids of Egypt to the jungle-choked ruins of Angkor Wat, from the magical desert capital of the Nabateans in ...