The Academy of Athens is lauded around the world as a marvelous example of neoclassical architecture, representing Greece's ...

Twenty-five hundred years ago the Spartans were the indisputable military power in Greece. No city had warriors as fierce and ...

As the official story of Cleopatra's death goes, the Egyptian queen locked herself in a mausoleum in Alexandria on an August day in 30 B.C.E. and sent for a venomous snake. After she received an asp, ...

Widely regarded as one of the birthplaces of modern archaeological science, the DAI pioneered the transition from indiscriminate digging at archaeological sites to the systematic excavation and ...

These 15 images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest remind us of the grandeur of Greece ...