During the Hellenistic era, an obscure city in western Asia Minor (modern Turkey) became one of the leading states of the 3rd ...

Greece loses around half its drinking water from leaky pipes and theft, government figures show - nearly twice the EU average ...

Greece’s chief seismologist says that while earthquake frequency around Santorini has slightly decreased, the situation ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological ...

The Greek island's most important industry will bounce back, but staffing is a worry say hoteliers Three more quakes above 4.0 magnitude are registered on Monday near the Greek tourist hotspot.

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to ... who adds that the Macedonian ...

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere ... who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty ...

Many of the oldest inhabited cities in Greece are still standing against all odds ... who came from the region of Lycia in Anatolia. For a great deal of its ancient history, Nafplio played the role of ...

The sea here is crystal clear and you can see the Turkish peninsula of Anatolia on the horizon, less than ten miles away. We bought a spade for five euros from the hotel shop and Alex made ...

While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece, it's this one in central Athens that garners the most attention. In fact, it's routinely referred to simply as "The ...

Google Maps will display the name “Gulf of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” for U.S. users once official government sources are updated to reflect the name change ordered by ...

and Central Greece. Specially equipped vehicles marked with the “Google Street View” logo will collect data to update Google Maps and Street View services. Before the images are published on Google ...