Tucked away on the island of Crete, this village is the perfect Greek escape, featuring crystal clear waters, traditional ...

Pigeons have an incredible level of intelligence, allowing them to remember and recognize people and places they return to ...

On this day in 1974, democracy was restored in Greece after seven years of military rule by the junta.

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The first ancient Greek colonies were established as early as the 8th century BC, while wide colonization continued through ...

Napoleon is relatively unusual in western history for aligning himself with the brutal Hannibal – not Hannibal’s Roman enemy, ...

Discover the first pirate ever recorded, from ancient Egypt to Dionysius of Ionia, and how piracy evolved through the ...

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The Trojan War was celebrated by legendary authors like Homer, and the supposed end of the war was marked by a trick that lived on through the ages, when the Trojans were duped by a large wooden gift ...

Somehow the ancient Greeks and Romans knew this too, long before modern science was there to back ... But exercising to music wasn't a new thing in his day. This practice has been recorded across the ...

STARKE COUNTY, Ind. -- Steam and diesel train excursions will be held at the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum during the evening of July 18 and all day on July 19.

I’m a political scientist who studies modern ... by a military leader named Pompey, the Roman navy worked hard to stop the pirates – and for a while it did. The earliest named pirate? The first ...