The city of Iskenderun, also known as Alexandretta, in todays Turkey, was originally founded by Alexander the Great.

Towering bronzes depicting emperors once graced an ancient shrine in a region of what is now Turkey that was once part of ...

Peter Frankopan, Oxford historian, was first enticed by history in the 1970s, during summer holidays as a child in rural Sweden visiting his maternal grandfather (his paternal line was the ancient ...

It’s astounding the things they leave lying around in Greece. Our ship has docked in ­Lavrio, southeast of Athens, and I’ve ...

Listening to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s speech last weekend, one word kept running through my head: Plataea. If you’re ...

IT is said that the official recording of International Relations began with Thucydides’ book, the Peloponnesian Wars, about the balance of power in the ...

You might think that finding crowd-free destinations in Italy is impossible, but nothing is impossible in this world. Get ready to fall in love with Italy.

The Chronicle of the Morea is the history of 14th-century Greece, specifically the Peloponnese -- once called the Morea.

Empress Irene of Athens, a pivotal figure in Byzantine history, navigated a world of political intrigue and religious ...

Vice President JD Vance and several bishops of the U.S. Roman Catholic Church are having a war of words over the Trump ...

His legacy as a champion and role model will forever be remembered in Greek sports history. Archaeologists have uncovered physical evidence of Tenea, an ancient Trojan city once believed to exist only ...