There’s also of course Sparta, the town famous for its soldiers, said to be direct descendants of Hercules. You can visit the ...

A valuable ancient vase gifted more than 70 years ago by the Greek government to an Italian prime minister has been voluntarily returned to Greece by the former statesman's grandson.

A team of Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a fort dating back millennia in Hosh Issa, uncovering artifacts including a ...

Reporter Owen Sennitt gets his first taste of cruise life sailing across the Aegean Sea on board Tui's Marella Cruises' Ottoman ...

The Getty Villa Museum and Classical Theatre of Harlem debut "Memnon" for the 18th annual Villa Outdoor Classical Theater production.

Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann was a larger-than-life figure, discovering Troy in what is now Hisarlik, in modern-day ...

Planning your vacation to mainland Greece in autumn can be a fun and exciting experience, but taking the trip during the fall ...

Apollonia of Illyria, or "Apollonia near Epidamnus" (modern-day Durrës, Albania), was an ancient city and a prominent ...

Ancient Greece was a land of stories, and the best of all its storytellers was Homer, who lived around the eighth century BC ...

While his children, Freyr and Freya, are quite well known, Njord will be an obscure name to most who play Age of Mythology: ...

Together Forever, dam of City of Troy, at Ashford Stud Farm 3, a division of Coolmore Stud near Lexington, Ky., on Sept. 4, 2024. In foal to Justify, Together Forever has an Into Mischief filly by ...