Unlike modern boxing, ancient Greek boxing had minimal rules and no weight classes, leading to often mismatched and extremely brutal encounters.

In ancient Greek mythology, before the more famous Olympian Greek gods (think Poseidon, Athena, Aphrodite, Hermes and, of course, Zeus) came another group of deities: the Titans. These were the ...

The world of archaeology and art is often filled with thrilling discoveries, but few match the sheer surprise and sere ...

The Babycenter blog, an American parenting website says that the Ancient ... of a Roman and Greek god of sun, light, music, and poetry, as well as medicine and healing. The most widely-known ...

A headless and armless small marble Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period turned up in the trash in Thessaloniki.

Found all around Ireland and in the UK, these X-rated 11th-century statues depict women exposing their private parts with huge grimaces on their faces but what's the history behind these grotesque ...

The Greek Police also said that the ancient statue will be handed over to the Forensic Investigations Sub-Directorate of Northern Greece for laboratory examination. It will then be transferred to ...

With an owl in the palm of her hand, a cloak adorned with a gorgon’s head and a warrior’s helmet upon her swept hair, Athena, as depicted in a Roman statue from the first century C.E., is a remarkable ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near dustbins in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The organised crime ...

An ancient marble statue ... it in to police on Saturday evening, Greek authorities said in a statement Wednesday. An archaeologist determined that the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period ...

In December, construction workers putting in natural gas pipelines near Athens found a Roman-era statue of the ancient Greek god Hermes buried upright in a brick-lined pit near the Acropolis of ...