Ancient Greeks of Athens used the courtroom as a democratic arena where ordinary citizens relied on lawsuits to keep elites accountable.

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered 430,000-year-old handheld wooden tools, the oldest surviving examples of their kind ...

What’s particularly exciting about finds like this is that we just so rarely have wood preserved for that long,” the study’s lead author told NBC News.

Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years.

While people in Ancient Athens had a remarkable work ethic, they placed equal value on leisure, seeing it as time for ...

Throughout nearly four centuries of Ottoman rule, Greeks launched over 120 revolts against their occupiers, starting from the 1481 Mani uprising led by Korkodeilos Kladas. Despite repeated betrayals ...

If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don't just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus Gellius, who lived in the 2nd century CE, gives us a ...

The New Year is upon us. That familiar sense of returning to the same place: same resolutions, same hopes, maybe the same weight, job dissatisfaction, or relationship patterns you swore you'd address.

Now the debut trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is out in the wild, age-old debates about “historical accuracy” have reemerged. The Odyssey is officially described as a “mythic action epic,” ...

Each Arc Raiders map has a few intriguing puzzles to figure out, and they'll usually provide you with some nice loot for solving them. For instance, if you've come across the Ancient Fort POI on the ...

The Greek government says an airport radar installation on a Cretan hilltop won’t harm a recently discovered Proto-Minoan labyrinth-like monument at the same site, but local authorities and residents ...

At nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 m), Olympus is the tallest mountain in Greece. Did the ancient Greeks really think that their gods lived on this foggy peak? And if they did, did they ever try to confirm ...