Aiolou Street in Athens is arguably the navel of modern Greece. A street around which the city and an entire nation began to ...

The Greek historian Herodotus (c ... Likely constructed in the first century BCE, the Tower of the Winds in Athens is sometimes described as the world’s first clock tower. It contained a water clock ...

People who love Phish do so with a quasi-religious devotion. People who dislike Phish do so with an equal fervor.

The Eye of Horus is frequently found in ancient Egyptian burials, particularly on wedjat amulets.

For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at ...

More than 5,500 years old, the wooden board is one of the most ancient preserved doors in Europe. Archaeologist Jakob Messikommer uncovered the prehistoric object from the marshes in Wetzikon in ...

Michael Tomlan, a Cornell University professor, told them the capitals are similar to the Tower of the Winds in Athens, Greece. "We knew we had something again that made it even that much more ...