Herodotus

Echetlaeus or Echetlus was the name of a mysterious ancient Greek warrior who appeared in the Battle of Marathon and helped to stop the Persians from invading Greece and then disappeared. 

In ancient Greece, hair was an important indicator of class and place of origin. Notably,  Spartan men were known for their long, flowing hair, which became linked to the ancient warriors in antiquity. While many would not associate long, beautiful...

Homer was one of the most important figures in ancient Greece. His contribution to ancient Greek culture was immense, due to his two most famous poems - the Iliad and the Odyssey. To the ancient Greeks, the works of Homer were...

Africans and Ancient Greeks had long, rich history together often reflected in the depiction of Africa in Ancient Greek art. The first contact between Greeks and Africans was sometime during the Bronze Age. At this time, the Minoan culture...

An ancient shipwreck proves the Greek historian Herodotus was correct about the observations he made about Egyptian vessels nearly twenty-five centuries ago, archaeologists said recently. The shipwreck, discovered in the Nile River near the ancient, and now sunken, city of...

Greek mythology is full of incredible beasts and monsters. The griffin is one such example of a famous mythological animal from ancient Greece. It had the body of a lion but the head and wings of an eagle. Obviously,...

Herodotus (or Ἡρόδοτος), born in Halicarnassus in 484 BC, was one of the most brilliant Greek thinkers of all time and is known worldwide as "The Father of History." He took it upon himself to record the history of the...

For the majority of Egypt's Pharaonic history, Greece and Egypt had very little to do with each other. There is limited evidence for trade, and certainly not much evidence for regular travel between the two countries. However, in the...

Hyperborea is a mysterious land in Greek mythology. Its exact location and nature is uncertain, but it features in various legends from a variety of Greek sources. What we do know is that Hyperborea was supposedly somewhere in the...

In Greek mythology, one of the most famous heroes was Heracles, more commonly called Hercules. He was the hero with super strength who went on twelve seemingly-impossible labors. However, according to ancient Greek accounts, Hercules has a surprising connection...