To pass the time the ancient Greeks played various board and dice games which have been attested to in various sources.

Since Athens is considered the birthplace of democracy, the ancient Greek statesman Pericles must be considered its father.

In a rare interview marking a decade since Greece’s near-exit from the euro, Angela Merkel defends her record on Greece’s ...

Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...

Greek police has dismantled a gang of Greeks and foreign nationals who had set up a laboratory in Attica to extract cocaine from cowhides.

Though the remaining roles have yet to be confirmed, major characters in the book include Odysseus’ wife, Penelope, and Greek ...

More than one in four Greeks have a savings account that they keep concealed from their partner, according to the findings of ...

More than one in four Greeks have a savings account that they keep concealed from their partner, according to the findings of ...

Part of a road in Cyprus collapsed, revealing a long-forgotten tomb from about 2,000 years ago, officials said. Photos show ...

Fans in Greece are paying their respects to clarinetist Petroloukas Chalkias, whose hypnotic, note-bending performances over ...

The latest ancient Greek archaeological find to cause a stir is a Hellenistic marble workshop, discovered during a dig on Paros, part of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea. You might not ...