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The difference in ancient paradises reveals a shared human desire for a perfect afterlife, though the details vary ...
Buddhism encountered a fascinating fusion with Greek culture in ancient times. Why did this Eastern religion adopt a Greek ...
In recent years, CTPH has introduced a series of Greece-related cultural works, publishing books including Greek Mythology, ...
Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...
Ready to ditch the dating apps? Try loitering outside a courthouse instead - it’s one of many tips the ancient Greeks and Romans had for finding love.
This is the fourth installment of Edmonds resident Nathaniel Brown’s recent travels to Greece. You can read part 1 here, part ...
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The Ancient Greeks Who Became Buddhists
When Alexander the Great’s empire reached India, it created a surprising cultural crossroads. Some Greeks living in the ...
The Odeon of Herod Atticus recently opened the 70th season of the annual Athens Epidaurus Festival, a cherished annual ...
The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ...
Most ancient history museums covering ancient Greece will have a marble statue like this one. Now, slaves were unofficially banned from making statues since it was considered a noble art. So, while a ...
Greek art shows warriors wearing Corinthian helmets tilted back on the tops of their heads between battles, and the ancient Greek goddess Athena, the patron goddess of Athens, was commonly ...