Control of the Oracle of Delphi was a key issue in Ancient Greece, and various cities and coalitions fought over it during ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to Greek mythology, Zeus sent two eagles around the world: one east, one west. The place where they met was the omphalos ...

When traveling in a country as old as Greece, ancient ruins can quickly go from magnificent to mind-numbing. Great — yet another nameless hill with more stony remnants of people from centuries past.

Sunlight floods the hillsides dotted with dark green cypress and olive groves. Here are the ruins, the stepping stones of a sanctuary that has existed since Mycenaean times. The Tholos, originally ...

I have a confession: I’m crazed about the ancient fortune-telling sibyls. So crazed that I’ve raced through the Vatican to see Michelangelo’s depiction of the sibyls on the Sistine Chapel and I’ve ...

In 356BC, the site of the Delphic oracle, hidden in the folds of Mount Parnassus, between the Corycian cave and the Castalian spring, was invaded by the army of neighbouring Phocis and placed under ...