A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

The "Percy Jackson" series by Rick Riordan will return to TV screens this year. If you can't wait for Season 2, read one of ...

Heraklion From its yacht-decorated Venetian harbour to its lofty walled bastions, Crete’s capital rewards wanderers, and the ...

The siren call of Celine Dion is very great. The queen of power ballads' tooth-loosening vibrato and enamel-melting schmaltz ...

Well, in many cultures, that’s precisely what a patron god or goddess does. These divine figures are not just distant, mythological characters; they play an active, guiding role in the lives of their ...

Tiresias, the blind Ancient Greek prophet, could foresee the future for Apollo, and was transformed by Hera and lived as a woman for seven years ...

In addition to the 1,800-year-old piece of engraved jewelry, archaeologists discovered a trove of Carolingian coins, medieval pottery and more ...

BT’s Openreach snags rural broadband deals worth £289mFCC kickstarts spectrum auction to raise $3bn for rip-and-replace ...

The story of Icarus is one of those legends of Greek mythology that fascinates audiences because of Icarus' desire to go beyond human boundaries.

The iconic Athenian owl, replicated from the ancient tetradrachm, has taken flight in the collecting world. Certain Greek one ...

Greece has over 6,000 islands and islets, but only about 227 are inhabited. 2. Athens, the capital city, is one of the oldest ...

The Epirotic grocer Exarchos, the coffee shop of the fighter of '21 Hautas, the painter Gyzis, Braham Pasha, the Bavarian ...