A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...

Those peoples who migrated eastward and either settled in Attica, or sailed across to the coasts of Asia Minor to found new colonies, became known as the Ionian Greeks. Although the Ionians ...

While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...

"When you get 11 fathoms and ooze on the lead, you are a day's journey out from Alexandria," wrote Herodotus in the fourth century B.C. The Greeks even ... built elaborate maps out of palm twigs ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Ancient Rome, geographer Ptolemy mapped both the land and the stars during his life (100-178). In 1407, "Geographia" ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of the people of Pompeii. Contrary to physical appearances, the DNA evidence revealed unexpected ...

This wasn't always the case, however, as the history of cheesecake is one of ancient ingenuity, empirical conquest, and cultural diffusion. The story begins on the Greek island of Samos ...

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