Eros, known as Cupid in Roman mythology, was the ancient Greek god of love and desire, often depicted as a winged youth with a bow and arrow. The offerings found inside the tombs of the building ...

There is no way to forget your first contact with the landscape of Lemnos. Crisscrossed by low hills, different landscapes ...

Earth's name, unlike other planets named after Greco-Roman deities, originates from Old English "eorþe," meaning soil or ...

Archeologists Discover Ancient Temple With Pink Granite Pillars Dedicated to Zeus and the Weather-God Kasios Archaeologists ...

Prime god Ra died every night and was reborn every morning. The goddess Neith defied gender norms and stereotypes as a great ...

A stunning ancient Greek statue was recently discovered during work on the natural gas network in Athens near the Acropolis.

Work to lay natural gas pipelines near the foot of the Acropolis has uncovered an ancient marble statue of a young man buried almost upright in a brick-lined pit ...

The ancient Greek city of Pergamon was a major center of culture and learning of the Hellenistic world, standing out for its ...

Many Greek gods and goddesses were associated with battle, but Ares was known as the one true Greek god of war (not to be confused with Kratos, the protagonist of the "God of War" video game franchise ...

Across the 24 books of Homer’s Iliad, the epic account of Achilles’ wrath at the siege of Troy, there are 240 battlefield ...

Hadrian’s Aqueduct supplied water to Greece’s capital for centuries but was then largely abandoned. It’s being revived to ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Every year on Christmas, Christians celebrate the birth of their religion’s founder, Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee. Part of this celebration includes the claim that Jesus was born ...