Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...

Athens has a plural name rooted in Ancient Greek language and mythology, revealing the city’s deep cultural and historical ...

The Pythian Games, ancient Greece's art Olympics, were a blend of athletic and cultural festivities taking place in Delphi ...

Hygieia was a prominent figure in both ancient Greek and Roman mythology—she was the daughter of Asclepius, the god of medicine. Hygieia (from whose name we get the word ‘hygiene’) was known as the ...

Whether laced with viper venom, poison gas, or deadly pathogens—these weapons of war relied on nature's armory to slay the enemy. Poison in the woundThe Greek warrior Achilles treats Telephus’s ...

The trial of Greece's Olympiacos football club chairman Evangelos Marinakis and dozens of soccer fans began in Greece on ...

A German woman who stole the top of an ancient column in Olympia over half a century ago has returned it to Greece, the Greek culture ministry said Saturday. The capital of the column, made of ...

From graphic novels to historical fiction to teen reads and more, these Greek mythology books appeal to a range of readers ...

The first hydraulic telegraph was invented in the fourth century B.C.E. by a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, named ...

New research suggests that Greek yogurt offers benefits beyond just protein intake. In a study published in the journal Nutrients on Aug. 29, Canadian researchers monitored the resistance training of ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a trove of 1,300-year-old bread loaves that brings one of the Bible's most famous verses to life. At Topraktepe, the site of ancient Eirenopolis in Turkey, researchers ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Staten Island Herb Society will delve into the dark side of botanical history when it presents Ancient Poisons at its Oct. 27 meeting at the Biddle House in Tottenville.