Residents just 30km away from Athens have fled their home, as Greece's temperatures are forecast to reach 44C on Sunday.

Colossus of Rhodes. Credit: GreekReporter archive Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. Along with the Great ...

A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery in Egypt.

Content Warning: Discussion of heavy historical topics during World War II. Jessica Cooperman, the Doris and Simon Konover Chair and director of Judaic Studies, hosted her first event at Storrs on ...

Greece ’s wildfires have devoured a third of the total forest land in the northeast of Athens, a European Union satellite mapping agency said.

Not only has Athens been covered in smoke due to the fires affecting areas from Alexandroupoli to Parnitha and Menidi, but even Malta and Sicily. While dozens of forest fires are raging in our country ...

Greece’s prime minister is offering a “do-over” for travelers whose trips to the holiday island of Rhodes were canceled or truncated by the country’s wildfires this summer.

A wildfire has triggered a series of massive explosions at an air force ammunition depot in central Greece. The depot was evacuated before the explosions, which shattered windows in the ...

Croatia is battling wildfires as thousands of tourists have flee Rhodes and Corfu amid blazes ravaging Greece. A firefighting plane is dropping water on a mountain side in Župa DubrovaÄ ka in ...

RHODES, Greece -- A week-old wildfire on the Greek island of Rhodes tore past defenses Monday, forcing more evacuations as strong winds and successive heat waves that left scrubland and forests ...

Standing outside the blackened shell of what used to be his restaurant, Dimitris Hajifotis laments a livelihood lost to wildfires raging on the Greek island of Rhodes this week.