Fruit baskets -with fruit still inside- that are more than 2,200 years old were found in Heracleion, the ancient underwater city of Egypt.

Nike was the Greek goddess of victory and an attendant of Zeus. While not among the 12 Olympian gods, she is described as a ...

The Greek island's most important industry will bounce back, but staffing is a worry say hoteliers Three more quakes above 4.0 magnitude are registered on Monday near the Greek tourist hotspot.

In The Smell of Sweat: Greek Athletics, Olympics, and Culture, William Blake Tyrrell (Michigan State University) takes on a broader brief. His very detailed and fully referenced discussion of the ...

NORWOOD, Mass. (AP) — Two teenage figure skaters, their mothers, and two former world champions who were coaching at a historic Boston club were among the 14 members of the skating community ...

Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture Two small vases found among the shackled skeletons allowed ... Cylon was an athlete at the 640 BC Olympic games. His victory there gave him an elevated status and the ...

Olympic champion Hannah Scott has confirmed she intends to go for gold again in Los Angeles in three years time. The 25-year-old won a dramatic quad sculls final in Paris alongside Team GB team ...

Olympic medals are displayed on a custom-designed trunk by Louis Vuitton at the Champions Park at Trocadero during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. © 2024 ...

A taste of the suffering to come had already been evident in 2005, when the European Commission put Greece under fiscal monitoring after the state had spent more than €9 billion on the Olympics ...

Costas Simitis: modernised a heavily statist economy with labour reforms and part-privatisation, particularly in the banking sector - MARIA MAROGIANNI/EPA-EFE ...

It was the largest protest in Greece in more than a decade and rallies also took place in more than 100 other cities across the country. The protests come following the release to local media of a ...

Tens of thousands of protesters have rallied outside Greece’s parliament in Athens to demand justice for the victims of the country’s worst railway disaster nearly two years ago. Sunday’s ...