Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...

The sanctuaries and temples of ancient Olympia are some of the oldest and most important in all of Ancient Greece.

A trove of "ancient treasures" was recently found in a third-century shipwreck near Greece. Not only did this trove include ...

At school, Sommer planned to specialize in sciences, but one day his history teacher showed pupils a map of Alexander’s ...

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere ... at the foot of Mount Olympus (the most sacred site in Ancient Greece) is Dion, where Alexander made ...

The crescent-shaped island of Santorini is one of Greece’s most popular tourist destinations, drawing visitors from across the world for its whitewashed houses and blue-domed churches clinging to the ...

A swarm of earthquakes has rattled the Greek island of Santorini, one of the country’s busiest tourist destinations, raising concerns about the stability of the region’s dramatic, volcanic cliffs ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...

People wait to buy boat and air tickets as Greek authorities are taking emergency measures in response to intense seismic ...

Constant expansion has introduced a sense of modernism to this ancient city ... For more details about security concerns in Greece, visit the U.S. State Department's website.

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...