Greek sandals, or the 'ugly' sandal. The classic caged sandal is a revival shoe trend with origins in ancient history, thanks to traditional mariners. Fast forward a few centuries, and who would have ...

A newly completed excavation at an ancient gymnasium in Agrigento, Sicily, the modern name for the ancient Greek city of Akragas (Greek: Ἀκράγας), has revealed new finds: a rare roofed auditorium, a ...

The lecture hall was discovered during excavations at Agrigento, the site of the largest ancient Greek settlement in Sicily. Photo by Thomas Lappi and Monika Trümper, FU Berlin, Institute of ...

Credit: Arbyreed / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 A UMass Amherst graduate student may have accidentally created a mysterious liquid that defies scientific laws – and seems strangely devoted to the shape of ancient ...

In ancient Greece, education wasn’t limited to the mind — it included the body as well. Physical fitness and scholarly pursuits went hand-in-hand, a principle reflected in the number of gymnasiums ...

It was a 4th-century BC fresco known as the “Madonna of Aigai.” This ancient Greek depiction bears striking similarities to the traditional portrayals of Virgin Mary we are all used to. This is why it ...

Colosseum. Credit: Featured pics/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0 For a long time, the ancient empires of Rome and China’s Han dynasty have fascinated historians and archaeologists. These two powerful ...

The myth of Lycaon, the king of Arcadia, is the story of the ancient Greek werewolf who was punished by Zeus for his insolence. Photo of ancient Greek amphora (c.460 BCE) depicting a man-wolf. Credit: ...

His greatest invention is the one that rescued Syracuse, the ancient Greek colony in Sicily, from the Roman siege. His greatest invention was a “death ray”—the first the world had ever seen—that he ...

Archaeological excavation at Cerro de las Cabeza, Spain. Credit: Juanantonaya / CC BY-SA 4.0 A new archaeological study at an ancient settlement, Valencina de la Concepción, near Seville, Spain, ...

The colour pallette is inspired by materials of an ancient Greek ruin. Livissianis was also wary of controlling the flow of the space. “[There] were probably multiple ways that you could enter ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, carved into ...