When Cleisthenes returned from exile to Athens in the year 507 BC, he faced a situation for which there was no precedent in history. Having proposed reform before Isagoras usurped power, ...

The remains of a large rectangular public building, called a stoa, were found in Greece in 2022 as archaeologists explored the ancient sunken city of Salamis. Greek Ministry of Culture ...

A "monumental building in the heart of the sanctuary" was first found in 2017, according to a recent social media post from Greece's Ministry of Culture. Another temple was found in 2023.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world. The Greeks were great ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA – New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in southern Greece, the latest repatriation marking ...

A new DNA study revealed Monday that several parts of Ancient Greece encouraged its citizens to marry their first cousins, according to the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

During the end of Greece’s Bronze Age, between approximately 1700 and 1100 B.C., Mycenaean civilization flourished throughout the Peloponnesian Peninsula.

Barack Obama and his family were spotted kicking off their summer this week as they soaked up the ancient ruins of Greece. The 61-year-old ex-prez toured the historic Acropolis site in Athens on ...

Finding statues from ancient Greece not common in country. The trafficking of antiquities from ancient Greece is not new as police continue to investigate other discoveries and road and ...

Ancient Greece by Train with Alice Roberts, review: Michael Portillo has nothing to fear here Channel 4’s history series is a wonderfully serene trip through Greece but doesn’t dig deep enough ...

A rare "Corinthian" helmet from ancient Greece will go up for auction in London later this month. Such helmets were iconic of the ancient Greek style of infantry fighting and have become emblems ...

An ancient site at the newly built Agias Sofias metro station ahead of its Nov. 30 official opening, in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Friday, part of the city’s long-delayed subway system ...