Kabbalah intertwines with Greek philosophy, from Neoplatonism to Pythagorean symbols, shaping Jewish mystical thought.

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Authorities on the Greek island of Crete have arrested six people allegedly involved in an antiquities smuggling operation.

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

A new analysis of classical medical texts suggests dementia was extremely rare in ancient Greece and Rome 2,000 to 2,500 ...

Take a gently paced coastal road trip from Kalamata in the southern Peloponnese to Parga in Epirus to experience ancient ...

For decades, a scattering of ruins in southeastern Europe was dismissed as little more than an unremarkable military outpost, ...

Step into the past with a journey to some of the world's most remarkable ancient cities. These destinations, ranging from the ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

The wildly popular Greek getaway destination has two hidden threats, and scientists are currently working to establish when a ...

Southeastern Italy may be better known for its beaches and burrata, but it’s also layered with ancient Greek and Roman ...