History

An ancient manuscript that has recently come to light indicates that in 262 AD there was another battle at Thermopylae that essentially saved Greece from the Goths. In 2007, Jana Grusková, PhD, of Masaryk University, discovered a manuscript fragment containing...

The sole surviving sample of Queen Cleopatra's handwriting, found on an ancient papyrus, reveals a single Greek word, "ginesthoi" (Greek: γίνεσθοι), meaning "make it happen" or " so be it". This remarkable document is a royal decree dated back to...

The story of how Athens, one of the oldest cities in the world, attained its current name is a foundational Greek myth. Unbeknown to many, the city actually had several names throughout its 3,400 years of recorded history. The initial name...

The famous Bronze Age Collapse at the end of the Mycenaean Era led directly into the Greek Dark Ages. This societal collapse happened around 1200 BCE, and the Dark Ages ended around the year 750 BCE—at least, that is...

A giant tree, resembling an Ent from The Lord of the Rings, has won the title of New Zealand's Tree of the Year. This strange tree, nicknamed the "Walking Tree," due to its resemblance to a figure strolling across...

The story of a Greek Orthodox monk who established 19 monasteries in North America is an epic of devotion to his faith and determination to achieve what others would find impossible. Elder Ephraim, also known as Ioannis Moraitis, was the...

Back in 2003, scientists made a discovery in Indonesia. They found some ancient human-like bones in a cave. After careful examination, they concluded that the person these bones belonged to was most likely a woman. What made her unique was...

Thucydides' historical account, History of the Peloponnesian War, is considered a classic, as well as being one of the earliest known history books.

According to Greek mythology, there were five Ages of Man. The first of these was the Golden Age, during which there was utter perfection in everything. But is this mythical Golden Age of mankind only found in Greek mythology,...

Dimitris Liantinis was a Greek philosopher and professor who believed that ancient Greeks were so preoccupied with the idea of death that it formed the basis of their entire culture. He then disappeared very mysteriously, with some positing that...

The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the most famous stories in Greek mythology. It is a classic quest story, and the goal at the end of the quest is the Golden Fleece. This is what...

Greeks fought on the side of the Allies on D-Day, June 6, 1944, which was largest seaborne invasion in history.

"An army marches on its stomach," the famous French general and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is believed to have said. This statement would have rung just as true thousands of years earlier for the armies of ancient Greece as it...

The first ancient Greek colonies were established as early as the 8th century BC, while wide colonization continued through the 5th

The Greek College, established in 1699, was a short-lived attempt to create a separate learning institution for Greek Orthodox students at the University of Oxford, England during the 17th century, when there was regular contact between Eastern Orthodoxy and...