Tsoureki (τσουρέκι in Greek) is the traditional sweet yeast bread Greeks make every year on Holy Thursday, and eat on Easter Sunday.

The ancient theater at Tlos in Asia Minor is almost fully restored to its former glory and expected to host performances ...

When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

China war inevitable? Perhaps that isn’t the lesson leaders should be taking from the ‘History of the Peloponnesian War.’ ...

Archaeologists have discovered the "oldest" auditorium from the ancient Greek world in Sicily. The international team, led by ...

Archaeologists have made two extraordinary discoveries in the Italian town of Agrigento on Sicily's southwest coast. During ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

Now, a farmer is reviving this ancient "superfood". It's a hot and muggy summer day in Sicily's Madonie mountains, a rugged range of ridges about 65km east of Palermo. In a field of ash trees ...

Greece has a long rivalry with its former imperial neighbor over sovereign rights in the island-dotted waters that separate them. Despite being NATO allies, their forces infamously came close to ...

While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece, it's this one in central Athens that garners the most attention. In fact, it's routinely referred to simply as "The ...

Most modern structures are built to last 50 years or so, but ingenious ancient engineering has kept this watery city afloat for more than 1,600 years – using only wood. As any local knows ...