Nearly two thousand years after it was carved, a Roman-era stele came to light not through a formal excavation but during ...

Why is nobody talking about this country? That question followed me across canyons, ancient lakes, mountain villages, and ...

The Mediterranean Sea used to be filled with pirates who terrorized not only Ancient Greece but Rome as well. Long before the ...

In Vevcani, North Macedonia, there's a carnival festival that's said to be 1,400 years old. It's a celebration marking the ...

One October morning in 336 B.C., the small theater at Aigai, the ceremonial center of ancient Macedonia, began to fill with honored guests. They had come from across Greece and the Balkans to attend ...

People have worshipped god since the beginning of recorded time. Some have been demigods, or half-human, or semi-divine.

Archaeologists found hundreds of burials in the Copper Age cemetery in Varna, Bulgaria, some of which were littered with gold ...

Traces of color preserved in the stone are changing how historians understand what was lost when Alexander burned Persepolis.

Alexander the Great (256-323 BC), formally Alexander III, King of Macedonia, was not only the greatest warrior-king in Greek ...

ATHENS, Greece — A priceless gold wreath has been unearthed in an ancient city in northern Greece, buried with human bones in a large copper vase that workers initially took for a land mine. The ...

Award-winning adventure travel company Wild Frontiers believe in thoughtful, immersive travel as a force for good. They bring together small groups of like-minded travellers for carefully crafted ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Pete Hegseth, the current defense secretary, has stressed what he calls the “warrior ethos,” while other Americans seem to have embraced a renewed interest in “warrior culture.” ...