Excavations this summer on Mount Lykaion, once worshipped as the birthplace of the god Zeus, uncovered the 3000-year-old skeleton of a teenager amid a mound of ashes built up over a millennium from ...

Erysichthon of Thessaly is a fascinating figure in Greek mythology, who is not very well-known, whose story teaches us a ...

Archaeologists have made a sinister discovery at the top of a Greek mountain, which might confirm one of the darkest legends of antiquity. Excavations this summer on Mount Lykaion, once worshipped as ...

The Greek traveler, Pausanias, living in the second century, CE, would probably recognize the spectacular site of the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion, and particularly the altar of Zeus. At 4,500 ...

Archeologists in western Turkey have discovered an altar side for the Greek goddess Demeter during excavations of the ancient Roman city of Blaundus. Blaundus, also known as Blaundos, was first built ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have identified the Bahçeli Roman Pool in Niğde as an ancient 2nd-century healing sanctuary ...