Here are 11 of our favourite places in mainland Greece that make for brilliant alternatives to the islands this summer. Part ...

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This is Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens’ depiction of Judah Maccabee’s triumph in the rebellion he led against the Seleucid Empire from 167-164 B.C. Rubens lived from 1577-1640.

Karni Mata Mandir in Deshnoke, Rajasthan, is a unique temple. It is home to thousands of rats. These rats are not pests but sacred beings. Devotees revere them as reincarnations of Karni Mata's ...

The funerary temple of Ramses II, the 13th-century B.C.E pharaoh, is worthy of his epithet: the Great. On the west banks of the Nile at the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, in modern day Luxor ...

Archaeologists in Corinth have uncovered a remarkable funerary structure from the Hellenistic period. This discovery was a significant one during the “Ancient Tenea” research program, which was ...

CORINTH — The parents of the 3-year-old girl who died in Corinth Wednesday night have been charged with allegedly endangering the welfare of the girl and four other children, according ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think.

Corinth's Temple of Apollo was built around 550 B.C.E. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons “The city was famous for both its culture and its warfare,” writes Live Science’s Tom ...

A temple was built in Apollo’s honor in the city of Ancient Corinth, which was located at the foot of the rock. Apollo offered the hill to the goddess Aphrodite, for whom Medea built a sanctuary at ...

Corinth TPopova/Getty Images History abounds in the southern city of Corinth, thanks to well-preserved ruins including the iconic Temple of Apollo and the Acrocorinth fortress.