The Sunday lectionary reading for this week, Easter 6 in Year C, is Acts 16.9–15. We are continuing in this season to focus ...

The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

As highlighted in the museum’s official presentation, the artifact is not just the oldest known map of the world—it’s also a cultural statement about how ancient Babylonians understood their ...

What did the melodies that accompanied rituals, theaters, or banquets in ancient Greece and Rome more than two thousand years ago actually sound like? A mathematical analysis of all the compositions ...

In ancient Greece, Olympic victors were crowned with olive branches, while Homer referred to the antioxidant-rich juice as “liquid gold” in his epic poems. Today, Greece remains one of the ...

The Banquet of Cleopatra' by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Ancient ideas about diet were grounded in archaic theories about how the body worked. Most Greek and Roman doctors believed that ...

Greece unveiled its map following a meeting of the country’s National Security Council (Kysea), with the country’s Defence Minister Nikos Dendias outlining the map’s purpose. “For the ...