Archaeologists working near the ancient Greek city of Assos (Greek: Ἄσσος) on Turkey’s Çanakkale coast have uncovered a dense cluster of...

There are lots of things about the ancient Minoan civilization that scholars continue to debate. One of the mysteries surrounding this civilization is...

Archeologists have recently deciphered the world’s oldest map in a Babylonian inscription nearly 3,000 years old and revealed a very familiar...

One ancient Greek scientist proposed the existence of polar day and polar night before people even knew the Earth was a sphere. Bion of Abdera is a...

  Archaeologists have uncovered previously hidden structures around a 2,300-year-old tower on the island of Paros (Greek: Πάρος), Greece....

Archaeological excavations in the ancient Greek city of Segesta (Ancient Greek: Ἔγεστα or Σεγέστα) in Sicily have uncovered significant...

Archaeologists in western Turkey have uncovered a 2,200-year-old sundial in the ancient Greek city of Aigai (Greek: Αἰγαί). It is a rare find...

Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose epic work Theogony has elevated him to the status of Homer and “a major source on Greek mythology,”...

Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose epic work Theogony has elevated him to the status of Homer and “a major source on Greek mythology,”...

Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a complex task due to the lack of accurate historical records and the different periods of ancient...