Demons are simply fallen angels. That is the common assumption, repeated so often that it feels settled. Yet one of the most unsettling traditions in ancient Jewish thought says something very ...
Two runners from Africa have taken down what was once among the most unthinkable barriers in sports, shattering the two-hour ...
It might have been mummy’s favorite bedtime story. Archaeologists found part of Homer’s “The Iliad” stuffed inside a ...
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Best things to do in Athens, Greece

Athens is a city where ancient history and modern life collide. Wander through the Acropolis and stand beneath the Parthenon, ...
The marble sculpture, found in the rubble of a Roman theater, is estimated to have been created between 27 BCE and 14 CE by a ...
A pair of African distance runners took down what was once among the most unthinkable records in sports on Sunday, shattering ...
Hecate’s name has been found on curse tablets, thin metal sheets on which residents of ancient Greece and Rome engraved ...
A joint Chinese-Greek archaeological project has been officially launched on Friday in Athens, marking the first ...
The papyrus was discovered in a mummy dating back around 1,600 years, unearthed from a tomb in Oxyrhynchus. The site, once a ...
A Solar eclipse was one of the phenomena that prompted the ancient Greeks to come up with the most brilliant astronomic ...
The ruins of Ptolemais, one of the largest Greek cities of antiquity, hide within their crumbling walls a unique ...
The "romance" of Alexander the Great is a unique illuminated codex on his life and was the most widely-read romance in the Middle Ages.