Book of the Week. Using historical figures from ancient Greece to present day, historian Naoise Mac Sweeney interrogates the ...

Calling all history buffs! Add this underrated town near Naples to your bucket list to see ancient Greek ruins in an ...

Its rediscovery has transformed it from myth into history. The temple stands as a testament to the enduring power of human ...

Why is the ancient Greek man Pheidippides, the greatest runner in world history after whose exploits the concept ... This story has to do with the desperate days of the Persian invasion of Greece.

Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their ...

Sumptuously illustrated in color and packed with information, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece is now available for the first time in paperback. Offering fresh interpretations of ...

When was Ancient Greece? How did ancient Greece begin ... The last period of Greek history is known as the Hellenistic period. This lasted from 323BC to 30BC when the Romans conquered Greece.

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered for decadent ... This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Depicted on a tetradrachm, the ...

He is considered by many to be the greatest observational astronomer of ancient Greece. With trigonometric tables that he developed, he applied geometry rigorously to the study of astronomy and ...

Athenians may have hated Spartans so much they idolized them Athenians may have hated Spartans so much they idolized them This ancient script ... and mysterious—history of ‘abracadabra ...

an allegorical site or a tribute to ancient civilizations Lanta Davis and Vince Reighard Experts added a carbon fiber pole to help anchor the "Apollo Belvedere," which had developed cracks along ...