She argues that it is so crucial to develop and deepen our understanding in great civilizations like the Chinese civilization.

The language and culture of the Hellenistic world was Greek. That became the lingua franca of all of these subject peoples. It was to that world what English is to the modern world in many ways ...

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta, capital of the Laconia region, situated on the Peloponnesus peninsula in modern Greece, but the impact of its unique culture is impossible to ignore.

Athens was the place to go in ancient Greece for culture. Every four years, Athens held the Panathenaic Games. Thousands of people paraded through the city to worship the god Athena. There were ...

Professor Lord Colin Renfrew, a pre-eminent British archaeologist of prehistoric civilizations including the Cycladic, has ...

The palace at Knossos on Crete was an important centre for the Minoan civilization DNA is shedding light on the people who built Greece's earliest civilizations. Researchers analysed genetic data ...

These myths were created after Minoan civilization had declined, but still reflected the respect that later Greeks had for the people of Crete. Despite Minos’s mythological status, the historian ...

Featuring 270 artifacts from 14 Greek museums, the exhibition The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great opened at the ...