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The history of Insurance goes back to ancient Greece as people at the time employed insurance-like practices in certain domains, predominantly within maritime contracts. Although Insurance, as we understand it today, did not exist in the form of modern insurance...

A 2,000-year-old ring that was unearthed 50 years ago near Jerusalem may well have been worn by Pontius Pilate the man who was the Roman prefect of Judea in the years A.D. 26 to 37. Pilate served as the fifth...

  King Menander began as a Greek general of King Demetrius of the Euthydemid dynasty. He is considered as probably the most successful Greek king of India, and ruled a huge empire from Gandhara to the Hindu holy city of...

Between the 14th and 15th centuries, a wave of Greek scholars left their beleaguered homeland in the Byzantine Empire for the Italian Peninsula, where their work would play an important role in the flowering of the Renaissance. The Renaissance, which...

As Bitcoin is trading at one of its highest price points in history, Kim Jong Un and North Korea claim their new quantum computer -- which had manage to keep under secrecy for years-- is able to hack the...

  You have probably seen the postcard of whitewashed houses gathered together overlooking the endless blue waters of the Aegean Sea countless times, and rightly so. Greece is known for its abundance of unique islands, which every summer offer visitors...

Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city, is both historic and avant-garde, and an ideal destination for a short city break.

The custom of setting aside a day, April Fool's Day, for playing harmless pranks upon one's neighbor has been relatively common in the world historically. There are three scenarios regarding the origins of April Fool's Day. Ancient Origins of April Fool's...

Turkey's main opposition party has claimed huge election victories in the main cities of Istanbul and Ankara. The results are a significant blow for Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had hoped to regain control of the cities less than a...

Istanbul is a name that the Greeks actually gave to the city. "Istanbul" derives from the Greek phrase "Is tin poli," meaning "into the city."

Turkey's main opposition party is closing in on victory in the major cities of Istanbul and Ankara, in important local elections that are a test for President Erdogan. Istanbul's opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who gained control of the city in...

Researchers have managed to decipher the manuscript of the ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer Ptolemy 200 years after its discovery. The manuscript is thought to have been written during the first century AD and was discovered by a Roman Catholic...

The truffle in ancient Greece was called "Hydnon." Philosophers, historians, and travelers have praised the rare mushroom with the high nutritional value, aphrodisiac properties, and delicate taste. Plutarch, Pliny, Cicero, Dioscorides, Theophrastus, Galen, and Athenaeus often mentioned the hydnon (plural...

Greek authorities took into custody a senior member of an international criminal gang that smuggled Latin American fuel products for illegal sale across the globe, making an estimated profit of more than $21 billion, police said on Saturday. The arrested...

Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk has warned that all-out war is a strong possibility in the near future, and Russia must not defeat Ukraine. Otherwise, it could destabilize the whole of Europe. The Polish Prime Minister said war was...