Learn about life in Ancient Greece, from The Olympic Games to pottery and drama; trek through sacred temples, train with the Spartans. Suitable for KS2 children.

The summer solstice occurs each year on June 21. It was celebrated by ancient cultures across the world, including the ...

The ancient Greeks didn't construct temples just for able-bodied people; this ancient society purposefully built ramps at some of its temples — especially at healing sanctuaries — so that ...

What the ancient Greeks can teach us about herbs. ... Alain Touwaide and his wife, fellow researcher Emanuela Appetiti, study a 10th-century manuscript in a monastery on the Greek island of Lesbos.

Yet the surge of interest in all things ancient Greek is part of a much older phenomenon. Again and again, in troubled times, we in the West have turned to our oldest stories for answers.

Ancient ideas about diet were grounded in archaic theories about how the body worked. Most Greek and Roman doctors believed that all bodies existed on a spectrum of hot, cold, wet, and dry.

The classical Greeks were really nothing like us—at least that now seems the prevailing dogma of classical scholars of the last half-century.Perhaps due to the rise of cultural anthropology or, more ...

Learn about life in Ancient Greece, from The Olympic Games to pottery and drama; trek through sacred temples, train with the Spartans. Suitable for KS2 children.

The ancient Greeks didn't construct temples just for able-bodied people; this ancient society purposefully built ramps at some of its temples — especially at healing sanctuaries — so that ...