If you hope to drop a few pounds or build that summer six-pack, ancient Greek athletes can give helpful pointers about ...

They cannot say the words “in the original Greek” without groaning, apologizing, adding layers of irony to the phrase. They seem so ashamed of some of the very knowledge that qualifies them to wear ...

For generations, the elite of Europe, and an increasing part of the population, had grown up with the history and art of ...

Koine, a prevalent dialect of Ancient Greek that was intelligible at the time by all Greek-speaking people worldwide ...

ORLANDO — In Greek mythology, a centaur is a creature that’s half-human, half-horse. Now, scientists have used NASA’s most powerful space telescope to study a different kind of hybrid lurking in our ...

At least eight people - including a child - have drowned after a speedboat carrying migrants capsized in the Aegean Sea during a chase with a Greek patrol vessel. The coastguard said the boat's ...

But George Osborne said "a lot of progress" had been made in talks to lend the antiquities to Greece. The sculptures offer a unique insight in to the culture of the ancient Greeks, so how did they ...

Researchers have deciphered a mysterious inscription hidden within an ancient amulet ... such inscriptions on amulets were written in Greek or Hebrew," Markus Scholz from Frankfurt's Goethe ...

Archaeologists have discovered an inscribed silver amulet that one theologian now says may rewrite the history of Christianity north of the Alps mountain range. The inscribed amulet was found ...

However, the ancient wording, dating back to between 230 ... “Such inscriptions in amulets were usually written in Greek or Hebrew,” he noted. And while little is known about the man who ...

Athens has been calling for a common European air defence system against enemy aircraft, missiles and drones since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. Greece is one of 21 ...

Athens has been calling for a common European air defence system against enemy aircraft, missiles and drones since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. Greece is one of 21 countries ...