While people in Ancient Athens had a remarkable work ethic, they placed equal value on leisure, seeing it as time for ...

Doctors in ancient Greece pioneered anesthesia with natural remedies like mandrake, opium and henbane to ease pain during surgeries.

A chance visit to Darwin reveals one of the most vibrant Greek communities outside Greece, with deep roots in Kalymnos and a ...

The ancient Greeks are widely seen as having been the founders of Western medicine more than 2,000 years ago. Although we now have a far more detailed and accurate picture of medicine, the ancient ...

Although most Greeks did not believe the gods physically lived on Olympus they still treated the mountain as sacred. Drawing on archaeological evidence of a summit altar this video shows that Greeks ...

Greeks, to put it mildly, love food. The idea of walking into my Greek grandmother's home and saying, "I'm not hungry," makes me laugh to this day. She would never allow visitors, friends, and ...

Long before NAFTA, global telecommunications and the international shipping industry, the ancient Greeks did overseas business the old-fashioned way: In boats rowed by slaves, they traveled to distant ...

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A recent article from the European Food Information Council reminded us of what we already know: Europeans are gaining more weight, and Greeks in particular have some of the highest rates of obesity.