Many ancient Greek scientists believed that Earth was literally at the center of the universe, and the stars and other celestial bodies rotated around it, although a model with Earth orbiting the ...

Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged mainland to bustling Athens, we trace the rise of Greek culture.

A 'miracle' plant consumed by ancient Greeks, Romans and Egyptians that was thought to have been eaten into extinction 2,000 years ago has been rediscovered in Turkey - about 800 miles from its ...

You might think of the yo-yo as a 20th-century toy, but it actually traces back to Ancient Greece around 440 B.C.E. Crafted from wood, metal, or even decorated terra cotta, these ancient yo-yos ...

A retired University of Georgia education professor says ancient Greece shows civil discourse's role in enriching communities and fostering intellectual development.

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.

Thanks to high-tech scanning, 2,000-year-old inscriptions on the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek "computer," can be read more clearly than ever before, revealing more information about the ...

Modern military volunteers donned replicas of ancient Greek armour and engaged in exercises inspired by Homer’s epic poem The Iliad.The demonstration shows how elite Bronze Age warriors could ...

A 32-year-old Greek national found the statue on Jan. 18 in a black bag near the trash bins. The statue, believed to be from the Hellenistic period, is currently being held by authorities for ...

Seeing works by Sophocles and Aeschylus in their native land imparts indelible lessons about pain and memory. The cemetery in Sidiro, a small Greek village near the Turkish border, where about 200 ...

Scientists may have finally made a complete digital model for the Cosmos panel of a 2,000-year-old mechanical device called the Antikythera mechanism that's believed to be the world's first computer.