Ancient Greek winter solstice festivals such as Haloa and Poseidon’s month blended astronomy, fertility rites, and the divine ...

Sappho sang of desire, passion, and love, mostly directed towards women. She remains the most mysterious of ancient poets.

Glide over Assos, the ancient coastal village in Kefalonia, Greece—captured in striking drone footage revealing its clifftop ...

The fascination with Greek culture can be traced to the early modern period, from the Renaissance until the eighteenth century. During this era, European scholars – and later educated elites and a ...

"That's not a minotaur, that's a stand-in for the child star of a classic 90s Christmas movie," I yell while playing Minos' ...

Performed in the annual Dionysia festivals, tragic drama was a central tradition of Ancient Greece, a method of both ...

Equal parts strange and terrifying: these are some of the many monsters that have haunted Greek mythology since antiquity.

Discover fascinating ancient myths and legends – from lost cities to warrior women – that archaeologists and scientists have ...

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Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...