WASHINGTON — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...

Tesco is to cut about 400 jobs across its stores and head office as part of plans to ... a week after rival Sainsbury’s said it would axe around 3,000 jobs as part of a major overhaul.

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Fourteen-year-old Liam Etter is headed to the World Axe and Knife Throwing Championship this April. Etter practices and competes in axe-throwing competitions at Ironside ...

In ancient times, the islands were colonized and inhabited by the ancient Greeks. The islands also play an interesting role in Greek mythology. They were linked with two gods, Aeolus and Hephaestus, ...

The head of the Albanian Orthodox Church ... He had been taken to the Greek capital on a Greek air force plane four days after being admitted to hospital in Tirana with what Church officials ...

The head of the Albanian Orthodox Church, who was airlifted to Athens due to complications from a virus earlier this month, has died aged 95, the hospital said Saturday. Archbishop Anastasios ...

Archbishop Anastasios, the head of the Albanian Orthodox Church for three decades, has died aged 95 in an Athens hospital after being airlifted to the Greek capital following a virus infection.

From ancient Turkey and Alexander the Great to the ... but also markers of diplomatic exchanges and symbols of personal prestige. Roman and Greek leaders paired their portraits with specific ...

It is missing its head and arms. The trafficking of antiquities from ancient Greece is not new as police continue to investigate other discoveries and road and construction workers across the ...

The discovery of ancient artifacts in surprising places is not uncommon in a country as rich in history and archaeology as Greece ... But the statue’s arms and head were lost to the past.

Author and historian Patrick Garner examines the different periods and styles of ancient Greek pottery and delves into the strange effigies of the Olympic god Hermes which were used in ways few ...