While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

close to the island's main town, Kilindoni. Most commonly seen between October and March, these gentle giants are the world’s largest fish — and they're every bit as awe-inspiring as they sound.

More than a century after its initial discovery, the only known amphitheater on the Ionian Islands is finally seeing ... the 4th century B.C.E., when ancient Lefkada was experiencing economic ...

Could ancient civilizations across the world have shared a symbolic language? This exploration compares the carvings on the Moai of Easter Island with those on Göbekli Tepe’s Pillar 43. Although ...

Their tangle with Egypt’s Ramses the Great at the Battle of Kadesh resulted in the world’s first peace treaty. (3,200-year-old trees reveal the collapse of an ancient empire.) “They were ...

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...

A genetic engineering company has stunned the world by bringing the ancient dire wolf back from extinction, but it won't stop ...

In 1991, Makis Metaxas, a local politician on the Greek island of Kefalonia ... his own odyssey to convince the world he is right. Rick Steves' Europe: Art of Ancient Greece Ancient Greece ...

An island community is set to become the first in Scotland to buy a protected ancient monument ... or carved stone balls at a time when a ‘New World Order’ of Neolithic society was taking ...

The first known map was a painting of a cityscape and an erupting volcano. Found on the wall of a baked-mud dwelling in the ancient Catal ... In The Island of Lost Maps, journalist Miles Harvey ...