The town wears its history like a comfortable old sweater—proud but not pretentious, elegant but lived-in. Founded in 1716, ...

South Metope IV of the Parthenon is one of many sculptures from the Parthenon in Greece that have been scattered across the ...

The Greeks of Cappadocia, in central-eastern Anatolia, created their own flourishing culture in ancient times that thrived ...

For ages, the Judean Desert has kept its ancient secrets buried under layers of sunbaked silence. But now, one of those ...

The Battle of Mycale was a pivotal moment in ancient Greek history, marking the end of the second Persian invasion of Greece.

Turkey is a very different place from one thing to another. Proud ancient ruins are standing next to modern cities, turquoise ...

El Argar used regional pottery networks to enforce political and economic dominance over its neighbors, revealing early state ...

Athens came out as a top contender in this year's Post Office City Costs Barometer, which ranked Greece’s historical capital as the fifth best-value city in Europe. Hotels in Athens are of ...

After boasting of her beauty to the Nereids or sea nymphs, she is punished rather harshly in my view by Poseidon and finds herself tethered to the north star Polaris to spin around it for perpetuity ...

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A stunning study of Octavian’s victory monument in Nicopolis, Greece, reveals how massive ships gave him the edge in the 31 ...

A COMPARISON OF BUDDHIST AND WESTERN PHILOSOPHY’ Prof. Asoka Amaratunga is well known to the readers of The Island by his ...