Could an alliance among the "Luwians" have helped caused the collapse of eastern Mediterranean civilizations 3,200 years ago?
Macaroni, the ancestor of pasta, like so many other things in our world today, had its symbolic birth in Greece.
Naxos is the largest island of the Cyclades and it is comparatively unknown relative to Greece's many other island idylls.
Timoleon (c. 411 - c. 337 BCE) was a Corinthian statesman and general who famously defeated the tyrant of Syracuse Dionysius II and an army of Carthage against the odds. Permanently settling on the...
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Men of antiquity worshipped Aphrodite by having sex with her temple maids at Paphos on Cyprus. Now the site is receiving new recognition, writes Andrea Watson.
Aizanoi: An ancient jug containing hundreds of Roman coins has surprised archaeologists in Turkey. The vessel with its silver payload
Pontic Greek, which closely resembles Ancient Greek still lives on today, in communities near Turkey's Black Sea coast.
La guerre d'indépendance grecque a impliqué tellement de nationalités que l'on pourrait presque la considérer comme une guerre européenne.
Ancient Greece witnessed a wide variety of government systems as people searched for the answers to such fundamental questions as who should rule and how? Should sovereignty lie in the rule of law...
The dark corners of history are filled with gruesome torture techniques that would make you very grateful for living in our "civilized" modern world. From
The Minoans were a powerful civilization on Crete, but they seem to have disappeared from history. New evidence may tell us what happened.
Greek literature has influenced not only its Roman neighbors to the west but also countless generations across the European continent. Greek writers are responsible for the introduction of such genres...
The ancient world was filled with music and singing from the time of the earliest civilizations and the Seikilos Epitaph is the oldest surviving record of
What is the true story behind the marbles, that they have a home waiting for them on top of the Parthenon of the Acropolis in Athens?
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The tablet was discovered in in western Peloponnese after three years of surface excavations by the Greek Archaeological Services in cooperation with the German Institute of Archaeology.
La guerre d'indépendance grecque a impliqué tellement de nationalités que l'on pourrait presque la considérer comme une guerre européenne.
Homer's Odyssey is an epic poem written in the 8th century BCE which describes the long voyage home of the Greek hero Odysseus. The mythical king sails back to Ithaca with his men after the Trojan War...
The Phaistos Disk is a disk of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistoson, on the island of Crete. It was discovered in 1908 and it possibly dates to
Men of antiquity worshipped Aphrodite by having sex with her temple maids at Paphos on Cyprus. Now the site is receiving new recognition, writes Andrea Watson.
A unique Byzantine inscription from the fourteenth century was recently discovered on Giresun Island in the Black Sea, inscribed on a tablet.
The Colossus of Rhodes was a gigantic 33-metre-high bronze statue of the sun god Helios which stood by the harbour of that city from c. 280 BCE. Rhodes was then one of the most important trading ports...
Alexander the Great , who lived from July 356 BC to 10/11 June, 323 BC, was an intrepid conqueror and a brilliant military general.
Tattoos were considered a sign of "otherness" in ancient Greece, as it was foreigners and criminals who had tattoos in ancient Greek society.
The story of Icarus is one of those legends of Greek mythology that fascinates audiences because of Icarus' desire to go beyond human boundaries.
Achilles, the main character of the Iliad, remains one of the emblematic heroes of Greek mythology for his bravery and fierceness.
The magical traditions of ancient Greece encompassed spells, curse tablets, drugs, potions, poisons, amulets, and talismans. For many cultures of the past, there was a very fine line between magic, superstition, religion, and science. The ancient magicians were seen as symbols of wisdom, keepers of secrets, and masters of the arts, mathematics and science, particularly chemistry.
