Nia Vardalos' connects again with her Greek heritage as her romantic comedy "My Life in Ruins" does a location shoot on the Acropolis, a feat that is unprecedented for a Hollywood movie, BORYS KIT ...

Sicily is strewn with ancient Greek attractions and, with half the tourist crowds of Greece, they’re the most enjoyable, too. The Sicilians are modest about their fabulous historical heritage. Chances ...

The Parthenon may be the world's most famous Greek temple, but if you really want to know what the Acropolis was once like, then you should leave Greece and head over to Sicily. The Valley of the ...

Ancient Greeks living in Sicily built their sacred temples to face the rising sun, new research suggests. Almost all of the temples constructed on the island of Sicily during its Greek period over ...

Discover Ancient Corinth Greece with a guided tour exploring historic temples, ancient ruins, and fascinating myths perfect for history enthusiasts, archaeology lovers, and travelers seeking an immers ...

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 ...

“Modern ruins” in Chania on the island of Crete in Greece. After spending days wandering through the ancient Greek ruins in Athens, coming across these modern ruins on the island of Crete made me ...

I saw the news on a sunny spring day, traipsing through ruins where the Oracle held court, in a place once deemed the center of the Earth. The report was dated by a couple of thousand years, carved in ...

On the night of April 10, 1826, after a devastating, yearlong siege by Ottoman Turkish forces, the desperate defenders of the ancient Greek city of Missolonghi valiantly tried to usher its starving ...

On Saturday, a rare event will occur in the history of the 2,500-year-old Acropolis of Athens, and it involves Nia Vardalos, the writer-actress who became the face of Greek culture through her ...