In a bid to distance itself from a series of embarrassing scandals, Facebook renames itself ‘Meta’. Like so many other things, we have the ancient Greeks to thank for the word ‘meta’, which was a word they used to mean “after” or “beyond.”
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Microsoft founder and the world’s fourth-richest person, Bill Gates, visited the ancient Greek city of Ephesus and Christian pilgrimage sites on the southwestern shores of Turkey with his super-luxury yacht on Friday.
Archeologists uncovered 1,500-year-old mosaics believed to be above Peter and Andrew’s home
Archaeologists have uncovered 400 rock-cut tombs decorated with images of grapes and flowers, dating back…
Unearthed ancient Greek mosaics of Amazon women are among the artefacts currently undergoing restoration work …
New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that ‘stressed poetry’, the…
Kyrenia (Ancient Greek: Κυρήνη), or more commonly known today as Cyrene, was founded as a…
Painter and muralist, Fikos is the creator of the largest mural in the history of Greek and Byzantine art. Entitled ‘Earth&Sky’ the 46-metre high masterpiece covers the side of a seventeen-storey building taking the internationally acclaimed artist just thirteen days to paint.
Donald Kagan, the celebrated American historian and classicist who specialised in Ancient Greece died last…
Invented in Ancient Greece, the cheesecake was initially served to the athletes of the first-ever Olympic Games to provide them with much needed energy to compete.
Rosetta Stone Today in 1799, a large slab inscribed with 3 different languages, including hieroglyphics…
Greek police have arrested three men in Kilkis on Sunday as they attempted to sell…
Enter the Panathenaic Stadium to discover the Dior Cruise 2022 show from Maria Grazia Chiuri, unveiled live from Athens.
For the past few years, Joy De Guzman has been collaborating with academics and musicians in producing and presenting the music that, through scientific as well as intuitive interpretation, they believe is the closest thing they can reproduce according to its creation millennia ago.
Every culture has its collection of superstitions – serious or half-serious, irrational beliefs relating to supernatural rituals performed to ward off ill fortune, bring good luck, foretell the future, heal, or to prevent sickness and accidents. Here is a list of some of our favourite Greek superstitions that you may like to read…just to be safe!
Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher who is referred to as the founder of the…
Portes Magazine An inverse of the black figure style preceding it in the history of…
68 Ancient Greek silver coins were discovered two days ago by a retired police officer…
The globally popular series ‘Dinner with Plato’ is an invitation to a delicious journey through time, featuring Ancient Greek recipes with traditional ways of cooking.
A new study finds that Ancient Greek, if taught from a young age, can help in the development of the brain and cure symptoms of dyslexia.