The Greek Dark Age was a 200-year period in Greek history in which cities collapsed, writing was forgotten; it was a time of warfare, poverty, and limited communication with the outside world.

A 600-foot footrace was the only athletic event at the first Olympics, a festival held in 776 B.C. and dedicated to Zeus, the chief Greek god. For the next millennium, Greeks gathered every four years ...

Arthur Porporis explains how ancient Greeks relied on religious rituals performed by priests to appease the gods before ...

The elusiveness of lasting peace isn’t a new problem. The ancient Greeks struggled to maintain it, even if they considered peace an ideal state. As Homer did in his Odyssey, many early poets paired ...

LITOCHORO, Greece (AP) — Snow-capped for much of the year, Mount Olympus, mythological home of ancient Greece’s 12 Olympian gods, has captured the imagination through the millennia. Rising to 2,918 ...

Power spots, sanctuaries, vortices. What is the difference?Greece is home to many places where you feel something special ...