I didn’t need to understand what my mother was saying to know the restaurant server had just called us foreigners. They both ...
This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...
The sanctuaries and temples of ancient Olympia are some of the oldest and most important in all of Ancient Greece.
At a time when knowledge of the world was fragmented and based on travelers’ and merchants’ accounts, one man set out to ...
Scientists have detected several thousand earthquakes, the vast majority of them with small magnitudes, in just over two ...
After five decades of disregard, the Piraeus Tower in skyscraper-averse Greece undergoes a refresh led by Pila Studio.
At school, Sommer planned to specialize in sciences, but one day his history teacher showed pupils a map of Alexander’s travels ... While in northern Greece you’ll find Pella, the ruined city where ...
Greece is transforming an abandoned airport into a £6.4billion futuristic city, expected to attract a million new tourists annually. Ellinikon, dubbed Greece's eco-friendly "zip code paradise ...
The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Three Greek opposition parties vowed Friday to challenge the country’s center-right government with a censure motion over its handling of a deadly rail disaster nearly ...
But that's exactly what happened after he posted intricate maps of his running routes ... while taking advantage of the city’s grid. As he ran, his phone's GPS tracked his route to create the lines of ...
and the city's claim to fame was that it was actually the first capital of the modern Greek state, from 1823 to 1834, before Athens took over. Its name comes from the Venetian Napoli di Romania ...