Traditional Greek honey biscuits melomakarona are ranked first on this year's Taste Atlas list for European Christmas sweets.

The name Basil II is remembered throughout Byzantine history as one of its most powerful and ruthless Emperors in battle.

Maps have often misrepresented the real sizes of developing nations, portraying them as smaller than more developed nations.

Ancient Greek women had their own festival, Haloa, where they honored three deities with drinking, dirty jokes, and huge phalluses.

Pythagoras believed in reincarnation, remembered his past lives, and saw the soul as deeply connected to the cosmos.

Several projects in the pipeline in Athens, from the northern suburbs to the Athenian Riviera, aim to revamp the Greek ...

A 2000-year-old 70-acre Roman Bath was completely restored in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Ephesus in Turkey.

Osamu Suzuki, who led Suzuki Motor for over 40 years and transformed it into a global automotive powerhouse, died at the age ...

Marine archaeologist Alexandre Monteiro claims that the coast of Portugal holds 8,620 shipwrecks, 250 of which may hold large ...

Herod the Great was the King of Judea who is said to have preserved the body of his dead wife in honey for seven years.

Almost 100 participants from 15 countries attended the 6th International Yale Symposium on Olive Oil and Health in Heraklion, ...

The axolotl has a deeper story: as its presence grows in pop culture, the wild population of only one lake hovers on the ...