The earliest ever human DNA from Scandinavia is set to help humans know about the elusive people who first settled in the ...

Modern day obsessions with healthy eating and fat-free foods for fitness is not new; it goes back to the ancient Greeks and ...

Amazons fight Greeks on a terra-cotta lekythos (oil flask) from the fifth century B.C. Amazon battle scenes, known as Amazonomachy, were popular in ancient Greek art. Metropolitan Museum, New York ...

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

There were several oracles in the ancient Greek world, but the oracle at Delphi was the most ... Once at the temple, pilgrims had to purchase expensive honey cakes as an offering to Apollo. And before ...

Greek herbs are used across the country and the world in cooking, for their flavor, and in medicine for their healing ...

Itrion, also known as Pasteli today, are essentially just honey and sesame bars and they’re a popular snack in Greece even today! I actually have one right here because I became obsessed with them ...

Opa! The Panegyri Greek Festival is celebrating 50 years this weekend. The three-day cultural event, hosted by the Holy ...

Animals were once considered mindless—incapable of thoughts or feelings. These views dominated common thought for millennia, ...

To tourists, it’s the ancient theater at the foot of the Acropolis. Artists revere it for the majestic stage where legends ...