The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

Plutarch could be considered the first outspoken vegetarian in the West, as he believed that it is "immoral" to eat animal flesh.

Minted in Troy in the third century B.C.E., the object might have been buried as a gift to the dead. Archaeologists don't know exactly how it ended up in modern-day Germany ...

How can we reach new audiences and unravel stereotypes? Ancient Greek society has fascinated people around the world, but it has often been misrepresented. Professor Michael Scott’s research has ...

Music has been with humans for a very, very long time. But as time marches on, history can lose the records of what that music sounded like. Take the Greeks for example. We can see the stadiums and ...

Turns out the ancient Greeks weren't just making things up! Join us as we count down our picks for the ancient Greek myths that archaeology and science later proved to have stunning real-world ...