In ancient Greece, kissing was not considered strictly romantic or intimate; rather, kissing was a often a greeting between ...

Ancient Greece is where the first form of direct democracy was developed. It was called demokratia, literally meaning "rule ...

Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

Ten years ago today, the people of Greece voted decisively in a referendum to reject the austerity program that the European ...

Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...

Amazons fight Greeks on a terra-cotta lekythos (oil flask) from the fifth century B.C. Amazon battle scenes, known as Amazonomachy, were popular in ancient Greek art. Metropolitan Museum, New York ...