The Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) is one of the most famous last stands in history. However, the Spartans did not march to Thermopylae alone ...

Georgios Gemistos Pletho, the last great Greek Platonist, inspired the Renaissance with his radical vision for Hellenism and ...

Greece and Christians throughout the world mark the Feast of the Universal Exaltation of the Holy Cross celebrated each year ...

On Sunday afternoon, Greece sealed the EuroBasket bronze with a 92-89 win over Finland, its first medal in 16 years.

On September 10, 1922, a Turkish mob brutally lynched Metropolitan Chrysostomos, the spiritual leader of the Greek Orthodox in Smyrna.

The ancient Library of Alexandria was—as is known—burned, depriving the world of its wealth of knowledge. But who actually burned it?

A Florida mother gave birth to a nearly 14 pounds baby at St. Joseph’s Hospital-South, nearly double the average newborn ...

Ancient Greeks shaped identity through democracy, as "citizen" defined city-state residents and their rights and obligations.

September 13, 1922, marks the Smyrna destruction, one of the most prosperous and beautiful cities on the Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor.

Did the Minoan writing system known as Linear A come from Egyptian hieroglyphics, or was it an independent invention?

The Pacific island of Guam faces ecological collapse as millions of snakes devastate bird life and fuel a spider explosion.

Smyrna was one of the most illustrious ancient and Hellenistic-era Greek cities, one of the main centers of Greek culture in ...