The ancient Greek machine gun, the polybolos, is one of the most fascinating warfare inventions in antiquity, shooting and reloading multiple bolts....

Ancient Athens was invaded and sacked four times, starting with the Persian invasion in 480 BC and ending with the destruction by the Visigoths in 396...

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics and especially geometry. By Evaggelos Vallianatos The second century BC...

The world’s oldest erotic graffiti was discovered in 2014 in Astypalaia, a remote Greek island of the Dodecanese. It dates from the early 6th and...

Echetlaeus or Echetlus was the name of a mysterious ancient Greek warrior who appeared in the Battle of Marathon and helped to stop the Persians from...

In the 4th century BC, a man who would later become one of the most ruthless tyrants in the ancient Greek world—and ruler of Syracuse—was doomed...

The tale of “The Haunting of Athenodorus” is one of the earliest recorded ghost stories, dating back to the early Roman years of ancient...

The Greek Geometric Period (1050-700 BC) is a lesser known era in history. However, it ushered ancient Greece from the Dark Age to the Classical...

The understanding of diabetes in ancient Greece was limited, yet Greek physicians made remarkable observations about the condition. They described it...

The death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC led to half a century of fierce military and political competition between the Diadochi (successors) who...