Salamis

As Athens prepared for its darkest hour in 480 BC, thousands of citizens crowded onto ships bound for nearby Salamis, fleeing the advancing armies of Persian King Xerxes after the fall of Thermopylae. Among them was the Athenian statesman and...

Recent underwater excavations at Ampelaki Bay have yielded major breakthroughs regarding the ancient submerged structure discovered at Salamis in 2023. Originally cataloged simply as a large public building, the 32-meter-long (104-foot-long) ruin has now been definitively identified as a Classical...

Ancient Greek lawmaker Solon of Athens is the statesman who laid the foundations for today's democracy in the sixth century BC

Ancient Greece witnessed numerous significant battles that played pivotal roles in shaping its history and Western civilization. These battles ranged from repelling foreign invasions and preserving Greek independence to expanding Macedonian power and transforming the political landscape of the Greek...

New research from the Academy of Athens argues that the Greeks actually chose Salamis after studying the area's climactic conditions.

A Corinthian helmet from the Persian Wars that was found several years ago in Israel has recently been turned over to Israeli authorities.

Popular Greek actor Danis Katranidis passed away on Sunday at age 75. For the past two years, he had retired from acting as was struggling with health issues. Katranidis had a long and fulfilling career in theater, television, and radio....

Greece's Saronic Gulf islands were voted Best Island Destination in the World Travel Awards (WΤΑ) for 2023 in a glamorous ceremony in Batumi, Georgia

The life of the great Athenian general Themistocles is well known, as the low-born leader was lauded even in his time for his brilliance.

The Battle of Salamis, fought between the Persians and a vastly outnumbered Greek force in September of 480 BC, is considered by many historians to be one of the most decisive in history, and much archeological evidence found there...