Few places in the world capture the imagination quite like Santorini. This stunning Greek island, set in the heart of ...

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

A spectacular necropolis just outside Naples contains stunning tombs that were carved into rock by the ancient Greeks who ...

A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of love and war, conveys about the pleasures and dangers of desire.

ATHENS, Greece -- Earthquakes rattled Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini every few minutes through the night and into Wednesday as authorities bolstered their emergency plans in case the ...

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Relatively little is known about the creators of the script ...

Ancient Greek art and culture have become cornerstones ... Both civilizations decorated their palaces with frescoes, using lime plaster and vibrant colors but with iconographic elements.

This unique degree programme offers training in an unparalleled range of ancient languages and their associated history, culture and textual traditions. Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin ...