The names of the days in Greek represent a historical shift, with Christian traditions deliberately overwriting the pagan calendar.

The Monastery of Panagia Yiatrissa (“Mary the Healer”) in Kastania, on the slopes of Taygetus, is traditionally believed to stand on the ruins of an ancient temple dedicated to Athena. In villages ...

Men dressed as berikas running down hillside ...

Video. Each spring, Georgia’s village of Didi Chailuri revives Berikaoba, a pagan rite with masked berikas, music and wrestling, hoping for fertility and good harvest.

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Readers respond to a guest essay on the president’s behavior and the ancient roots of human dignity and compassion.

A newly analyzed Greek inscription indicates that the Great Mosque of Homs likely stands on the site of the Roman Temple of the Sun, revealing a layered history of pagan, Christian, and Islamic ...

One could be forgiven for coming away from Leighton Woodhouse’s “Donald Trump, Pagan King” op-ed in the New York Times with ...

A mysterious inscription sheds light on the issue of whether the Great Mosque of Homs in Syria was constructed over the ...

Archaeologists in Germany recently revealed a secret tunnel from the Middle Ages — a tunnel hidden within a much older burial site. The findings were revealed in a Jan. 29 press release by the State ...

The text—the tale of a warrior ruler—may help settle a nearly century-old puzzle about the location of the Temple of ...

The Greek seaside town of Galaxidi has exploded into a messy "flour war" as many of its 1,700 residents and many visitors ...