Ancient Greece

The Greeks of Cappadocia, in central-eastern Anatolia, created their own flourishing culture in ancient times that thrived for millennia.

The 4,200-year-old shipwreck off the tiny island of Dokos near Greece's Hydra is believed to be the oldest shipwreck ever discovered. The wreck, located about 15 to 30 meters (50–100 ft) underwater, is dated to the Early Helladic period (2700-2200...

Dune: Part Two, like the first installment is making a big impact in the world of cinema. According to figures released this month, the sci-fi epic is nearing $700 million at the worldwide box office. The movie is an...

After Alexander the Great added Egypt to his conquests, he went on a long, perilous journey to meet the ancient Siwa Oracle where he received a mysterious message. By 332 BC when the young king had already conquered vast swathes...

World history could have been very different than what it is today had the ancient Greeks not halted the expansion of Persia through a series of epic battles on land and sea. These took place in the 4th century...

The gold and silver mines of North Greece and Lavrio produced the metals the ancient Greeks needed to forge empires and lay the foundations of Western civilization. The mineral wealth of ancient Greece played a crucial role not only in...

While Athens and Sparta dominate history book pages, there are lesser known ancient Greek city-states that played an important role in the spread of Greek civilization. City-states such as Thebes in Central Greece, Argos and Corinth in the Peloponnese, the...

The Islamic Golden Age was a period during which science, literature, geometry, astronomy, and other fields of knowledge flourished from the eighth to the thirteenth century. Without the scholars of this period, who translated the works of the Ancient...

The mystery over the Riace Bronzes, two magnificent ancient Greek statues, remains, more than half a century after the day they were recovered off the coast of the Italian region of Calabria in August of 1972. To this day, archaeologists...

The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in the long pageant of Greek history; appearing in many of the age-old legends of Greek mythology, it was part of the Mycenaean civilization during the Bronze Age. Later becoming...

Friedrich Hölderlin was an important German Romantic lyric poet whose great work managed to bridge the Classical and Romantic traditions in literature and poetry and was deeply inspired by ancient Greece. Throughout his tumultuous life, Hölderlin had a strong and...

Stoicism was one of the philosophical movements of the Hellenistic period, founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC

Delphi, Greece, 1894. Archeologists and workers pose in front of the magnificent statue of Antinous, which was unearthed near the Temple of Apollo in the sanctuary at Delphi. The statue was discovered by a team of French archeologists, who in...

The Roman conquest of Greece is an integral part of the long and rich history of this proud nation. However, people mostly focus on the periods before or after this crucial moment, neglecting the importance and long-lasting consequences of...

Ancient Greek scientists and philosophers are brought back to life and tell their stories in this captivating video produced through Artificial Intelligence (AI). Equator AI created the video using the latest artificial intelligence technology to bring these great thinkers to...