NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with archaeologist Gary Feinman about new findings that show democracy existed throughout the ancient world and was not exclusive to Mediterranean Europe.

Excavations at the site of the 1802 Mentor shipwreck uncovered a marble fragment that may have ties to the Parthenon in Ancient Greece, officials say.

From signal fires to telegraph flags, the history of communication reveals a paradox: the ability to transmit any message, no matter how complex, reduces to a single repeated choice between two states ...

In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, thunder and lightning strikes were the prime weapon of Zeus (the king of the gods, known to the Romans as Jupiter). Reminders of his power and wrath via ...

A favorite tourist destination, Greece has become known as the summer capital of the world and not without good reason.

Four hundred years of slavery and racism had made many Greeks bow their heads, when they saw a Turk, enduring his authoritarianism fatalistically. After all, those who had stood up against the tyrant ...

A festival parade in Melbourne was marked by a dispute over the Vergina Sun, which a North Macedonian organization was ...

The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West.

Preserved in the margins of ancient literary works are notes that reveal how the Greeks strove to map mythical places onto ...

The Milan Cortina Olympics ended Sunday with a closing ceremony inside the ancient Roman amphitheater, Verona Arena.

The Olympic flame encased in a Venetian glass vessel was carried into the Arena by Italian gold medalists from the 1994 ...

The Milan Cortina Olympics end Sunday with a closing ceremony inside the ancient Verona Arena, roughly mid-distance between ...