In ancient Greece people enjoyed chilled wine at social gatherings, using specially designed cooling pots called psykter.

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Ancient Greece's Special Forces, from the Sacred Band of Thebes to the Hetairoi of Alexander the Great's army, became ...

The city which was the art capital of the Western and Mediterranean world for millennia still has much to offer…this time by ...

Ancient sculptors were very ... to a nouveau-riche household. To the Greeks, the marriage of color and form had deeper connotations, suggests Harvard art historian Susanne Ebbinghaus.

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

Authorities on the Greek island of Crete have arrested six people allegedly involved in an antiquities smuggling operation.

Perched on a hillside on Lefkada, an island off the west coast of Greece, the structure has been ... began around the 4th century B.C.E., when ancient Lefkada was experiencing economic prosperity.

The ancient story of the Aeneid ... This description matches a common design from Greek and Roman art of birds with women’s heads. In Greco-Roman myth, the harpies were typically tasked with ...

BCMA IN BLOOM: Featuring objects ranging from a cauldron to a pair of earrings and focusing largely on depictions of the ...