Snow-capped for much of the year, Mount Olympus, mythological home of ancient Greece’s 12 Olympian gods, has captured the ...

Before modern weapons of mass destruction, there was Greek fire (ignis graecus). This was the term medieval Crusaders applied ...

Argos waited twenty long years for his master Odysseus to return home, surely earning him the title of most loyal dog in ...

The Odyssey is set in a world of Gods and monsters. Learn about the mythical figures and creatures who threaten and tempt ...

The Greeks didn’t locate their deep past in far-off fantasy lands. These stories happened in places all around them.

Until now, the earliest known instance of human interest in ichthyosaurs was in 1699, but a peculiar discovery pushes that ...

After the collapse of Mycenaean society in the 12th century B.C. the Greeks ventured out to sea again in search of new lands – and no one personifies this better than Odysseus and his turbulent ...

Until recently, it was impossible to directly assess the diet and mobility of ancient Greek animals and settle this debate.

GREECE, N.Y. — Greece Animal Services is offering free pet adoptions because it’s running out of room. The shelter is waiving its $50 adoption fee through the end of the month and possibly longer.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New fossil evidence from crocodile-like early tetrapods known as embolomeres suggests they grew without undergoing amphibian-style ...

Stone tools found on Crete and other Greek islands suggest that ancient humans may have crossed open water in the eastern Mediterranean far earlier than once believed. The finds include tools on Crete ...

Ground squirrels spend many months in a winter slumber, and then awake ravenous and eat anything and everything in sight. A study of 700,000-year-old DNA from coprolites — fossilized poo — has now ...