10+ hour, 4+ min ago  (899+ words) One of the fundamental beliefs of the Ancient Greeks was that their beloved gods were immortal, but were they? What happened to these seemingly invincible deities, who were flawed yet powerful? Did the gods of Ancient Greece, those figures of…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (557+ words) The Siege of Candia, or what we now call Heraklion on the island of Crete in Greece, was almost unimaginable in its duration. For more than two decades, war raged across Crete, settling into something like daily life for those…...

4+ hour, 13+ min ago  (571+ words) Ancient frescoes like that of the Greek monkeys on Santorini suggest Europe and south Asia had trade links as long as 3, 600 years ago." By Tracie Mc Kinney &"Marie Nicole Pareja Cummings The wall paintings of Akrotiri were preserved by ash…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (342+ words) The village of Montresta in the province of Oristano, about 87 miles (140 km) northwest of Cagliari on Sardinia, was founded by Greeks from the Mani peninsula on the Peloponnese in 1750. As Ioannis Korinthios, a lecturer in Modern Greek Studies at the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (288+ words) The "Woman with the Braid" stands as one of the most remarkable and rarest archaeological finds in Greece. Discovered in 1962 in Thessaloniki's eastern necropolis, this 3rd-4th century AD burial revealed a lead coffin hermetically sealed within a marble sarcophagus. This discovery…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (462+ words) Years-long excavations and research have recently revealed the ancient Greek theater of Lefkada in the Ionian Sea, the only one discovered in the Ionian islands, which is described as the most emblematic and important monument in the region, the Greek…...

14+ hour, 14+ min ago  (391+ words) For a long time, the ancient empires of Rome and China's Han dynasty have fascinated historians and archaeologists. These two powerful civilizations shaped much of the world's early history. But which one of these ancient empires had the greatest inequality?...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (640+ words) Cleopatra, the Greek Queen of Ancient Egypt, and Marc Antony, the famous Roman general, conducted part of their decadent love affair on the Greek island of Samos in the summer of 32 B. C. At the time, Samos was regarded as Mykonos is…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (431+ words) A 5, 000-year-old loaf of bread unearthed at an archaeological site in Turkey is giving researchers a rare window into Bronze Age rituals and food culture. The carbonized bread, found at K'll'oba H'y'k in the Eski'ehir province, dates to 3200-3000 BC and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1081+ words) Greek Reporter. com From Achilles to Alexander the Great: Compassion in Ancient Greek Warfare In the ancient world, the Ancient Greeks knew that war demanded not only strength, strategy, and courage but also compassion, even toward one's enemies. Their literature…...