If you’re into antiquities, you could spend a week wandering among the ruins clustered around the ... the Museum of Cycladic Art and 20th-century Greek painting and folk art at the Benaki ...

Bart Ehrman, a New Testament scholar from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, wrote in Time: 'In the ancient world (whether Greek ... In the ruins of this once bustling city ...

Deep within Jordan’s desolate desert canyons and rugged mountains ... Petra disappeared. In ruins after a series of earthquakes, it came to be known as Wadi Musa—the Valley of Moses.

I can attest that plenty of wine is still made in the area — more than half of the country’s wine, in fact — and it’s far better than it must have been 4,000 years ago. I had planned to explore the ...

A mother and daughter are transformed by a sojourn in western Scotland. At four in the morning, far from civilization on an island in the Inner Hebrides, I woke to the drumming of rain on the canvas ...

A series of earthquakes near the Greek island of Santorini have led authorities to shut down schools, dispatch rescue teams ...

“Daughter of Ruins” centers Demitra, an unyielding artist whose life is a product of generations of powerful Greek women — similar to Corporon herself. “Daughter of Ruins,” published in ...

Located in Agrigento in southwest Sicily, this more than 2,000-acre archeological site dates back to the sixth century B.C. and includes the remains of numerous Greek temples. A highlight is the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Greek sanctuary in Ponte during the construction of a high-speed railway in Italy.

The placement of ancient Greek temples was far from accidental, according to the fascinating theory of geodetic triangulation. This concept suggests that the location of these sacred sites was ...

However, it was never completed and now lies in ruins. It is located in the Valle dei Templi with several other major Greek temples. The history of the temple is not entirely known, though some ...