With the famed ruins of Pompeii looming large in people’s imaginations, many of Italy’s smaller and lesser-known ancient sites often are overlooked. One such place is Paestum, a long-ago Greek colony ...

If you were dropped into Paestum and not told the location, you’d think you were in Greece. But you are in Salerno, Italy, where the remains of three Greek temples, with beautifully carved columns, ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece – A 2,200-year-old statue of the goddess Hera has been found in a wall of a city under Mount Olympus, mythical home of Greece's ancient gods, archaeologists announced Thursday.

You might think Greek goddess Hera, wife of Zeus, was beyond rehabilitation. Her acts of jealous revenge were creatively sadistic. She turned one rival lover, Io, into a cow, and another mortal she ...