The draining of Lake Kopaida in Boeotia was among the most ambitious land reclamation projects of ancient Greece and ...

In ancient Greece people enjoyed chilled wine at social gatherings, using specially designed cooling pots called psykter.

Graves unearthed in northern Greece contain bones widely believed to be from victims of the country's civil war in the late ...

Ancient Greece is traditionally remembered for its philosophy, mythology, and great buildings—but there's a lesser-known side ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered for decadent ... This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Depicted on a tetradrachm, the ...

What was it like to live in an ancient Greek family? What was everyday life like in ancient Greece? Find out about family life, entertainment, food and fashion. Who were the ancient Greek gods and ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world ... by historians as the Archaic period of Greek history. During this time many of the cities in Greece ...

All ancient texts are read in English translation. Studies Greek history from 800 B.C. (the rise of the city ... Covers Macedonia's rise to dominance in Greece under Philip II and the reign and ...

That image is dead wrong, according to modern scholars. Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color as well as form; the white marble statues we admire looked stunningly different in ...