Athens sprawls across the Attica Basin, a valley surrounded on ... Constant expansion has introduced a sense of modernism to this ancient city. You will most likely spend the majority of your ...

Athens wears its long history lightly — you’ll even find locals sunbathing beside an ancient temple on one ... sculpture garden is a who’s who of Greece’s good and great, their graves ...

How did ancient Greek hero Theseus unite all of Attica under the rule of Athens, and what was it like before he did?

Cleisthenes was the statesman who laid the foundations of democracy in ancient Athens by dividing Attica into ten tribes by location.

A train derailed along U.S. Route 224 on Tuesday night in Attica in Seneca County, with 20 cars going off the tracks. No injuries were reported and the property damage was limited to the crossing ...

A high-pressure system from Eastern Europe is preventing milder Mediterranean air from reaching Greece. Attica Weather Outlook: Snowflakes Possible in the Mountains In Attica, the weather will be ...

The Dispilio Tablet was discovered in a Neolithic lake settlement in Greece in 1993 and is believed to date back to 5079 BC ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The organized ...

even reflecting historical events such as the conquest of Greece by the Romans. The Aegean region gave rise to some of the earliest cultures of ancient Europe. The research team investigated when ...