Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...

An announcement on June 9 from the Greek Ministry of Culture cites the discovery of a rare underground spring cistern dating ...

Excavations at 'Homer's School' reveal artifacts bearing his name and a bronze statue, confirming the existence of an ancient ...

Few figures in ancient mythology remain as legendary to this day as Odysseus, the fabled Greek king of Ithaca who devised the ...

The Grecian art inspired by Homer’s tales, as well as other mythic accounts, divides into three periods: the Archaic period (750 to 500 BCE), the Classical period (500 to 336 BCE) and the Hellenistic ...

The 10 different finds included ships from 3,000 B.C., the Classical period of 460 B.C., the Hellenistic period of about 100 B.C. to 100 A.D., the Roman years of 200 B.C., and the Byzantine period ...

This period of destruction and upheaval marked the beginning of the Iron Age,” the researchers added. The findings appeared in the journal PLoS ONE . This article originally appeared in May 2024 ...

Researchers have discovered 10 shipwrecks, including one estimated to be more than 5,000 years old, off the coast of Greece, along with scattered ancient artifacts from around the globe. Using ...