It occupied a strategic position on the Dardanelles, a narrow water channel that connects the Aegean Sea to the Black Sea ... the most famous story of ancient Greek mythology.

One major reason why ancient Greece was dominated by small city-states ... Byzantium, close to the Black Sea, and numerous cities all along the western coast of modern-day Turkey.

Aegean beaches, ancient Greek ... a major role in Greek mythology. Jason and the Argonauts had to navigate the ship-eating rocks at the confluence of the Bosporus and Black Sea, and then sail ...

Discovering ancient ships at the bottom of the Black Sea was one of the largest maritime ... and Byzantine periods and the time of ancient Greek colonization. The discovered shipwrecks would ...

It occupied a strategic position on the Dardanelles, a narrow water channel that connects the Aegean Sea to the Black Sea ... the most famous story of ancient Greek mythology.