The Library of Pantainos in Roman Athens had perhaps the earliest known inscription in the world which laid out rules for the ...

Experts said the fragment, recovered by divers from the Greek culture ministry, matched the style and dimensions of the ...

New research shows many ancient societies shared power and limited rulers, revealing that democracy existed far beyond Greece ...

Chelidonisma links ancient and modern Greek tradition, celebrating spring's arrival through the sacred song of the swallow.

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Nathan Arrington, an assistant professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University, sometimes visits the cemetery near campus to think. He is an expert on another burial ground, thousands of ...

THE Athens of the fourth and fifth centuries before Christ, which may properly enough be called the Periclean Athens, has been an extinct community for more than two thousand years, and yet it is more ...

A new study has challenged the long-held belief that democratic governance was exclusively born in the classical Mediterranean world of Greece and Rome. By analyzing archaeological and historical ...