Ancient Greece's Special Forces, from the Sacred Band of Thebes to the Hetairoi of Alexander the Great's army, became legendary in history.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — As many as 200,000 people are expected to attend Pope Francis' funeral in St. Peter’s Square as he is ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

Paleoartist John Gurche illuminated the art of reconstructing ancient human ancestors at an Ohio State lecture.

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

Ancient Greek history is full of the names of great minds: philosophers, scientists, statesmen, generals, historians and ...

The lecture hall was discovered during excavations at Agrigento, the site of the largest ancient Greek settlement in ... seats and could hold about 200 people, researchers said.

Recently, archaeologists from Freie Universität Berlin uncovered an auditorium inside a gymnasium and school complex that once stood in the ancient Greek colony of Agrigento, Sicily. This semicircular ...

Even though Greece is rapidly secularizing like the rest ... Father Spyridon cherishes his mission to be present for his people – whether a short walk away or visiting from around the world.