Bactria, a huge area in todays' Afghanistan, was the eastern edge of the ancient Greek empire, established by Alexander the ...

A theater that once overlooked ancient Lefkada in Greece is seeing the light of day more than a century after its initial ...

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

Following a decade of excavation efforts, archaeologists unearthed the remains of an ancient Greek amphitheater—the first of ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

The agoras of the ancient Greek city-states were open areas for people to assemble for everything from political gatherings to public debates. Ancient Agora is the most popular of its kind ...

The late political scientist enjoined readers to look for opposition to authoritarian states not in revolutionary vanguards ...

Because of its position on a peninsula between two ancient fortresses, Corfu Town has played an important role in Greek history since ... marks the center of the city. Old Town is the site of ...

in a state where we are supposed to have religious freedom, that on March 8th we should not celebrate in honour of our gods because we are illegal.” The temple’s creation signals a broader resurgence ...

BC, at the peak of the Greek Archaic period, Priene was a small Ionian city overlooking the Aegean Sea. Located on the coast of Caria in Anatolia, north of Miletus, Priene was not known for its ...

The first recorded Olympic Games were held at Olympia in the Greek city-state of Elis in 776 B.C., but it is generally accepted that the Olympics were at least 500 years old at that time. The ancient ...

Shiloh National Military Park, just a short drive away across the Tennessee border, combines historical significance with ...