The so-called Ionian Revolt was the beginning of a series of events and war reprisals between Ancient Greeks and Persians.

It’s been a day packed with sightseeing and lessons in Greek history. Led by our Greek guide, Nanda, we walked to the ...

White statues of antiquity also fed into these views. "Historically, societies put their own ideologies into how they look at the world," Nikos Stampolidis, general director of the Acropolis Museum, ...

Many significant ancient Greek temples are found not only in Greece but also in other countries that were once part of the ancient Greek world ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Once you're inside the Acropolis Museum, look for the famous caryatids – a collection of marble statues that were replaced by copies on the Erechtheion for the purpose of ...

The Acropolis Museum put on a show in 2012 that explored color on statues and recreated themImage: Acropolis Museum Some of this myth of whiteness can be attributed to the 18th-century German art ...

Climbing the Acropolis, communing with the druids at Stonehenge, or marvelling at the sprawling remains of Pompeii — ...

Climbing the Acropolis, communing with the druids at Stonehenge ... And I could fill the now-empty niches with brightly painted statues of Greek gods and goddesses. Clearly, there are two kinds of ...

(Photo by Norma Meyer) Pampering aside, I soon found myself in the modern city of Sparta, just a 10-minute drive from ...