Ancient Greeks used a primitive type of lifting machine to move heavy stones before they began using cranes 2,500 years ago.

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

the island still has its traces of Greek architecture. But almost no one has heard of Paestum. This ancient Greek city, formerly known as Poseidonia, thrived for two centuries between 600 and 400 ...

Greece is home to some of ... The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek origins. From 776 BCE to 393 CE, the ...

Athens-based independent scholar Demetrius Savvides has shown that in Amphipolis, northern Greece, where the Kastas Monument ...

homes mimicked the structures of ancient Greece. By the mid-1800s, Greek Revival became the predominant style of architecture in the U.S. and was deemed the “National Style.” It was ...

Greece. It is renowned for its golden-white color and is particularly noted for its use in ancient Greek architecture and sculpture. Perhaps the most famous example of Pentelic marble is the ...

Despite enduring damage, that masterpiece remains a quintessential example of Classical Greek architecture ... 4 years of meticulous reconstruction of ancient lighting scenarios within the ...

The Greek Ministry of Culture has announced that archaeologists have fully uncovered the ancient Greek theater of Lefkada, the first such monument ever discovered in Greece’s Ionian islands.

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York ...