While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Evidence of a similar vessel appears on an ancient Greek vase featuring the infamous Homeric character, Odysseus, tied to its ...

a city believed to have been located on the Western coast of the Black Sea near the modern day Turkish town of Kıyıköy. His story is told in the Argonautica by ancient Greek author Apollonius ...

"These are ritual objects made specifically for burials and brought from Greece," explained a former archaeologist now serving in the Ukrainian military.

All maps are influenced by the intent and biases of their creator—even those that are striving to be as accurate as possible.

Move over Mallorca and say au revoir to the French Riviera — there’s a new stretch of shoreline that looks set to be one the hottest holiday destinations this summer. From the ‘quiet and ...

Set during the French Revolution, with the story largely taking place in Paris, Assassin's Creed Unity brought AC firmly back to Europe after many a year in the American colonies or on the ...

The natives, says Obers in bis Travels in Mexico, make as many uses of this plant as the South Sea Islanders of the ... Asiatic hemp and Egyptian papyrus. Ancient hieroglyphics were inscribed ...

In other areas, rock salt from ancient seas could be dug out of the ground. The earliest known salt mine was in 5000 BC, at a place in Austria now called Hallstatt, from the Greek halos ... elsewhere.

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...