Alexander the Great founded over 70 cities and created an empire that stretched across three continents, covering 2 million square miles. There was never one country called ‘ancient Greece’.

The ancient Library of Alexandria, built in the city founded by Alexander the Great, was one of the greatest wonders of the world.

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times ...

An essay by Marianne Bonz describing the myriad of religious options available in the Roman Empire. Bonz is managing ... deities were the gods of ancient Greece. These gods had made their home ...

Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their ...

Strabo’s “Geography,” written as Rome was turning from republic to empire, became an imperial ... and neither but whose verse ...

The scroll dates back over 2,000 years, when the Roman Empire was believed ... the Piri Reis map was discovered in 1929, one ...

Anyone with Holiday as their surname is bound to have a sunny disposition, is what I told myself ahead of interviewing Ryan Holiday, the author credited with popularising Stoicism, the ancient ...

First I looked at a map: Bulgaria is bordered by Greece ... BC. Ancient Roman ruins are prominent in its walkable downtown.

an allegorical site or a tribute to ancient civilizations Lanta Davis and Vince Reighard Experts added a carbon fiber pole to help anchor the "Apollo Belvedere," which had developed cracks along ...