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 ...

For more than a century, archeologists have looked for proof that a complex in Ithaca was related to Odysseus, now they have ...

The Greek language likely filtered out several centuries later, as the proximity to Greko Calabria and the advent of Byzantine Greeks in the sixth century AD ensured that Greek continued to be spoken.

Demosthenes was a talented ancient Greek general skilled in surprise attacks, who fought for Athens during the Peloponnesian War.

The ancient Greek agora was the original social media, shaping public discourse and viral ideas long before the digital age. Credit: Greek Reporter illustration Imagine Socrates live-tweeting his ...

Between parked cars in a suburban street in Athens, workers fix a pump to an ancient stone well that in turn accesses an aqueduct built almost 2,000 years ago.

The concept of lawbreakers being confined in prison as punishment is so ingrained in our way of thinking that it might not even occur to most people that there are other ways of doing things. But ...

The ancient artwork, thought to date to the 4th century B.C., depicts two satyrs, nature spirits that appear in Greek mythology.

Ancient Athens had fallen because the demagogue Cleon had seduced the Athenian assembly into continuing the war with the Peloponnesian League; Rome had fallen because the people were corrupted by ...

A mysterious example of ancient Greek graffiti may reveal the existence of a lost temple at the iconic Acropolis of Athens, a pair of researchers have proposed in a study.