In ancient Greece, kissing was not considered strictly romantic or intimate; rather, kissing was a often a greeting between ...

Well, you can. It involves learning a little ancient Greek, and getting to know that society’s approach to time. As you do, ...

Like Roman numerals, their system borrowed letters; like the Arabic numerals we still use, it only needed one symbol for each decimal place. In the 6th century BCE, the Greek alphabet used 24 letters.

Instead, this letter has its origin in an ancient Greek symbol called a 'Christogram'. According to the expert, the nickname ...

The ancient Greek symbol for medicine was a similar one, called the Rod of Asclepius. The two are almost identical, but the Rod of Asclepius only features one snake wrapped around a short staff.

The tale of Salmoneus, the king who dared to imitate Zeus, reveals ancient fears of hubris, madness, and divine punishment.

Markings from late Neolithic Greece resembling these classical Greek letters, Delta, Epsilon and Lambda, they argued, could further complicate prehistory's relationship to classical ancient Greece ...

Sotiris Hatzimanolis, editor-in-chief of Melbourne-based national Greek community newspaper Neos Kosmos, likened the use of ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.

This ancient symbol, also called the Staff of Hermes, depicts two snakes intertwining around a stick that is capped by wings. It’s used as a medical logo, but for almost all its roughly 5000 ...

An ancient statue depicting the Greek god Hermes was uncovered by archaeologists inside an around 2,000-year-old Roman sewer in Bulgaria. Fox News Media Fox Business ...