Whanganui is to establish a citizen's assembly to consider the future of its outdoor swimming pools, following public outcry against a proposal to close Whanganui East Pool.

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval ...

Between parked cars in a suburban street in Athens, workers fix a pump to an ancient stone well that in turn accesses an ...

A Roman-era bridge was discovered in the ancient city of Elefsina, west of Athens during works for a suburban railway line.

Lysistrata” chronicles the story of a young Greek woman weaponizing her sexual prowess for the greater good. What lessons can ...

Greece has a new president. Here’s what it means in the battle for the Elgin Marbles - Greek lawmakers have elected a leading ...

Greece's parliament elected its former speaker, Constantine Tassoulas, as the country's president on Wednesday, approving the ...

There is a perceptible Roman bias in the teaching of law, but the ancient Greeks were actually also quite influential.

New research has uncovered the earliest traces of lead contamination caused by human activities, linking the development of ...

Hubris. The dictionary gives us synonyms like arrogance, overconfidence and extreme pride. For the ancient Greeks hubris was when mere mortals thought they could challenge the gods. It seldom turned ...

Marlon Brando declined his 1973 “Godfather” Oscar to protest Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans. Stars have since used ...

The British Museum should return the ancient treasures to Greece for the sake of art, not nationalism.