Did the Ancient Greeks really invent the Olympics? What did they wear? How did they party? What did Ancient Greek music sound like? In the first episode of a new series, host of 'The Ancients' podcast ...

Under the leadership of statesmen like Pericles, Athens developed a form of direct democracy that allowed its male citizens ...

A groundbreaking project analyzes humans who lived in ancient Greece and creates biographies based on their skeletal remains.

A wine cup believed to belong to ancient Greek politician Pericles, discovered in 2014, is the highlight of the Epigraphical ...

Agrarian societies, historically reliant on favorable conditions in nature for their survival, created these rituals to ward off evil and misfortune, she said. Carnival revelry has for centuries ...