Olivia Hussey, best known for her emblematic roles as Shakespeare's Juliet, and Virgin Mary, died two days after Christmas ...

Putin apologised to the president of Azerbaijan for the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines civilian plane in Kazakhstan on ...

Bronze Age Minoan ingots with unique markings that were recently discovered show vast trading links between Cyprus and ...

The name Basil II is remembered throughout Byzantine history as one of its most powerful and ruthless Emperors in battle.

Maps have often misrepresented the real sizes of developing nations, portraying them as smaller than more developed nations.

Traditional Greek honey biscuits melomakarona are ranked first on this year's Taste Atlas list for European Christmas sweets.

Several projects in the pipeline in Athens, from the northern suburbs to the Athenian Riviera, aim to revamp the Greek ...

Thucydides’s account, History of the Peloponnesian War, is considered a classic, as well as being one of the earliest known ...

A 2000-year-old 70-acre Roman Bath was completely restored in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Ephesus in Turkey.

Throughout history, strange medical practices that we might consider gross or inhumane today have been used to cure the ...

Greece braced for adverse weather, some of Athens' northernmost suburbs covered in snow since the early hours of Saturday.

Ancient Greek women had their own festival, Haloa, where they honored three deities with drinking, dirty jokes, and huge phalluses.