The gymnasium (i.e. gym) in ancient Greece was an important institution, as exercising and keeping one's body fit were vital ...

Sitting in the Ionian Sea, several miles west off of Greece's northwest coast and ... Because of its position on a peninsula between two ancient fortresses, Corfu Town has played an important ...

Drinking games are found in virtually every country across the globe. Here are 13 popular drinking games from around the ...

Our program is designed to give students an understanding of its five main areas: organic, physical, analytical ... Classical civilization majors explore ideas born in ancient Greece and Rome and ...

The Ancient Greek Dark Ages came after the powerful Mycenaean Era. But what actually were the Greek Dark Ages, and how did they end?

New research has uncovered the earliest traces of lead contamination caused by human activities, linking the development of ...

They were found in a peat bog in northeastern Greece near the island of Thasos, an ancient hub for silver mining and metalwork. “Peat cores don’t receive any fluvial [river] input, so it’s ...

New archaeological museum contains original marble map from Ancient Rome - Visitors can walk over the map in the museum in ...

Experts just found a 3D map that was carved into quartz sandstone likely 13,000 years ago. Located within the famed Segognole ...

A new map of climate conditions during the Pliocene epoch—the last time Earth’s carbon dioxide concentrations hit 400 parts ...

Seven successive tremors measuring over 4.0 magnitude were recorded in the early morning by the Athens Geodynamic Institute, Greece's leading authority on earthquake analysis. This was after a 5.2 ...