Also note that the five-day Acropolis ticket for 30 euros ($31) includes access to the Temple of Olympian Zeus, along with the Acropolis itself and many other local sites. Athens Full Day Private ...

Cleisthenes was the statesman who laid the foundations of democracy in ancient Athens by dividing Attica into ten tribes by location.

A group of researchers from the National Technical University of Athens has conducted an ambitious geophysical study to unravel the hidden mysteries beneath the Temple of Olympian Zeus, one of the ...

It was located in the region of Elis, where the first prehistoric traces of Hellenistic ... went to the temple of Zeus in Olympia, considered to be the beating heart of Greek mythology (hence ...

Greek authorities said in a statement Wednesday. An archaeologist determined that the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period, which lasted from 323 B.C. until 31 B.C., between the death of ...