Ornate, grand, and unabashedly beautiful, antebellum architecture is a true Southern treasure. And even though antebellum is a word we’re used to hearing, few know what it means—other than multi-level ...

The winding rocky path that led up to the Acropolis was surrounded by numerous small shrines, including one to the god Pan, who had appeared to the runner Phidippides before the battle of Marathon. At ...

Some of the most well-preserved Greek temples in the world — such as Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples — are in Sicily. Dominic Arizona Bonuccelli It may lack the Botticellis, Guccis, and touristic ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

The American Archeological School, founded in Athens in 1882, for the study and restoration of ancient Greek buildings, has become the guardian of the library of Joannes Gennadius, long the Greek ...