Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...
Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval ...
A trove of "ancient treasures" was recently found in a third-century shipwreck near Greece. Not only did this trove include ...
The Hellenistic period begins with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E., after leading expansions of his empire from Greece and Asia Minor through ... uncovered an ancient mosaic of ...
This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...
An English woman in the small village of Whiteparish had been using this slab as a stepping stone in her garden for almost a ...
(CNN) — By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere ... shoring up his rule and putting down revolts in southern Greece and the Balkans. Then, in 334 BCE, he ...
Stocks dropped sharply on Wall Street after markets in Asia and Europe tumbled ... the actress Adèle Haenel when she was a minor. Greece: The island of Santorini was rattled by hundreds of ...
Charon obol. Depictions of the bee appear very early in the development of coinage in ancient Greece, with Ephesus, an ancient city in Ionia (Aegean coast of Turkey) having a particular claim to the ...
Sitting between Asia, Africa and Europe, Crete is located around 200 miles south of mainland Greece. With an area ... restaurants and even the ruins of an ancient castle. Paleochora is also ...
Egeria was a Christian who traveled widely during the period of 381-385 and wrote about Christian customs and observances in Egypt, Palestine, and Asia Minor. She described how religious tourists ...
Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.