I didn’t need to understand what my mother was saying to know the restaurant server had just called us foreigners. They both ...
This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...
The sanctuaries and temples of ancient Olympia are some of the oldest and most important in all of Ancient Greece.
At a time when knowledge of the world was fragmented and based on travelers’ and merchants’ accounts, one man set out to ...
Scientists have detected several thousand earthquakes, the vast majority of them with small magnitudes, in just over two ...
After five decades of disregard, the Piraeus Tower in skyscraper-averse Greece undergoes a refresh led by Pila Studio.
At school, Sommer planned to specialize in sciences, but one day his history teacher showed pupils a map of Alexander’s ...
Greece is transforming an abandoned airport into a £6.4billion futuristic city, expected to attract a million new tourists annually. Ellinikon, dubbed Greece's eco-friendly "zip code paradise ...
Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general who was Alexander's close ... risen several meters since the time of Alexander, historical maps suggest, so large swaths of the historical city, including ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Three Greek opposition parties vowed Friday to challenge the country’s center-right government with a censure motion over its handling of a deadly rail disaster nearly ...
While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece, it's this one in central Athens that garners the most attention. In fact, it's routinely referred to simply as "The ...
But that's exactly what happened after he posted intricate maps of his running routes ... while taking advantage of the city’s grid. As he ran, his phone's GPS tracked his route to create the lines of ...