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

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 founded Naples in the first millennium BCE. What legends exist about its origin, and what does archaeology ...

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 ...

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.

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.

The ancient Greeks were incredibly talented mathematicians—but they rarely used numbers in their math. Their particular specialty, geometry, dances around actual quantities, focusing on higher ...

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.

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 ...