The ancient Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of ...

the pebbled design is part of a 2,400-year-old floor Sonja Anderson Houses and businesses across the Greek capital incorporate—or obscure—structures spanning the city’s ancient, Byzantine ...

This article follows our family as we visit the Ancient Agora of Athens. Plus, learn about the history of this iconic landmark and some fun facts about Greece!

Enjoy. Casting views from the hilltop at the Acropolis citadel in Athens, Greece, the Parthenon is a true ancient wonder whose Doric architecture has been ravaged by time and war. Its cavernous ...

Drama-plays and poetry profound Spoken at a theatre, wide and round Build up stones and sculptures broad and tall Well-proportioned, so that they don’t fall Blocks and columns planned with ...

Greek cities had beautiful temples with stone columns and statues, and open-air theatres where people sat to watch plays. Image caption, Ancient Greek ruins of the Temple of Apollo and theatre in ...

Long destroyed, the Colossus of Rhodes was a World Wonder that survives in paintings, documentaries, and even a few video ...

Athens was the at the heart of the ancient Greek empire, and the city played an important ... Located at the entrance to the Acropolis, the Propylaia combines Doric and Ionic architecture to create a ...

Incredible now and then images of the world’s most famous landmarks from the towering Giza Pyramids to the ruins of Pompeii and the Great Wall of China.

He then pulls down the columns to which he ... story about warring tribes in the ancient Judea. It begins a bit farther east in the Mediterranean, in ancient Greece. It comes from Aristophanes ...