The funerary stele of Mnesagora and Nikochares, an ancient Greek marble relief from Vari, near Athens,is a stunning example ...

Kollyva, the boiled wheat-based sweet offered at Greek Orthodox memorial services for the souls of the dead, has roots in ...

Archaeologists, during their Trapezá plateau excavations in Greece, unearthed an ancient building along ... were three lion statues and a funerary stele featuring a man in his youth.

In 431, shortly after the Peloponnesian War had broken out, Pericles delivered his famous Funeral Oration to commemorate ... on which our understanding of ancient Athens is based and provides ...

"An ancient Greek statue titled 'Grave Naiskos of an Enthroned Woman with an Attendant' depicts a woman who appears to be ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Mourners lined the street outside Athens' central cathedral Thursday ahead of the state funeral for former Prime Minister Costas Simitis, the architect of Greece’s ...

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