One major reason why ancient ... colonies were eventually founded all over the Mediterranean, from Naples in Italy, to Marseilles in France, Cyrene in Northern Africa, Byzantium, close to the ...

According to Archaeology Magazine, Ukrainian soldiers found several ancient Greek ... shore of the Black Sea, in what are now Ukraine and Russia. Ancient Greeks founded numerous colonies in ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world ... but also in colonies scattered around the Mediterranean Sea. There were Greeks in Italy, Sicily ...