Although many researchers assume that birthday celebrations date back to the ancient Egyptians, the earliest textual evidence ...

The choreographer Akram Khan’s “Gigenis,” based loosely on a character in the Mahabharata, represents a kind of homecoming ...

The Acropolis of Athens is one of the most visited world sites, but what stood on top of it before the construction of the ...

The avant-garde artist cemented her fame with the achingly personal “Magdalene.” Her new club album, “Eusexua,” looks outward ...

This unique degree programme offers training in an unparalleled range of ancient languages and their associated history, culture and textual traditions. Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin ...

dance instructor Sotiris Sotiriou founded the “Pegasus” Dance Academy with the aim of preserving and disseminating Greek traditional dances dating back over 2,500 years. His vision centered on ...

In ancient Greek mythology, before the more famous Olympian Greek gods (think Poseidon, Athena, Aphrodite, Hermes and, of course, Zeus) came another group of deities: the Titans. These were the ...

The Greek language was written in capital ... a reflection of the tools and techniques that people in ancient Greece had available at the time. Lowercase letters emerged during the Byzantine period ...

After a period of turmoil, places often talk about ... heritage by preserving its natural landscape and embracing its ancient roots. The more-than-2,500-year-old ruins of the city of Butrint ...

A sculpture dating to the Hellenistic Greek period has turned up in the most ... water pipelines in a town north of Athens uncovered an ancient mosaic of dancing satyrs. A monumental building ...

“Many thanks to all the Greeks, wherever they are, for their support,” Maria Karystianou – a representative of the association of families of Tempe victims, who lost her 20-year-old daughter ...

A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the world’s earliest civilizations.