The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in the long pageant of Greek history; appearing in many of the age-old legends of Greek mythology, it was part of the Mycenaean civilization ...

Credit: MusikAnimal /CC BY-SA 4.0 By late antiquity, the Cappadocian Greeks had mostly converted to Christianity. They were so thoroughly devout that by the fourth century AD, the region of Cappadocia ...

The Turkish-Cypriot administration on Wednesday accused the Greek-Cypriot side of “distorting history” and evading responsibility for the Cyprus problem in a strongly worded letter to the ...

The 2018 Winter Olympics are bigger and more extreme than ... This Wall Street Journal brief history series helps explain the now, by looking back at how we got here.

“On April 18th, 1821, the island of Samos officially declared its participation in the burgeoning Greek Revolution against the Ottoman Empire. This act, fueled by a long-standing desire for liberation ...

In Paris 2024, the opening ceremony of the competition was organised outside of a stadium for the first time in modern Olympic history as athletes of every contingent ... bagged bronze in their ...

The evacuation of British children is going on smoothly and efficiently. The Ministry of Health says that great progress has been made with the first part of the government's arrangements.

Cricket has made its official return to the Olympics after 128 years as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed the same on Wednesday (April 9). The Los Angeles games in 2028 will be the ...

Goals from Giannopoulou and a penalty by Myriokefalitaki sealed the victory, ensuring Greece’s historic advancement. This victory marks a new chapter for Greek water polo, with the team’s grit and ...

We took our recording van last week to a small, Lancashire mill town about 15 miles from Manchester and found, almost without exception, that the children there were happy, excited by their new ...

In the rich history between Benfica and FC Porto ... carpet’ for the ‘deadly Eagles’: ‘It was the night of the Greek God.’ Following this deity-like performance, Pavlidis told Sport ...