The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.

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

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 ...

The search for a lost Roman temple is on. As archaeologists continued to excavate a Roman fort from the first century A.D. in ...

Researchers on an expedition in the Black ... Sea found themselves staring at one of the most incredible ancient artifacts ever discovered when they stumbled upon the largely intact remains of a ...

Constant expansion has introduced a sense of modernism to this ancient city ... is believed to have been named for the black gas fumes (or "gazi" in Greek) that once flowed from its factories ...

Sitting in the Ionian Sea, several miles west ... position on a peninsula between two ancient fortresses, Corfu Town has played an important role in Greek history since the eighth century B.C ...

The Indonesian artist’s latest videos combine quantum physics and mysticism, opening new portals through which to explore ...

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and ... 770-656 B.C.), the so-called Black Pharaohs. The tomb of Queen ...

A Balkan country in eastern Europe, Bulgaria boasts history going back to the ancient Thracians, Greeks and Romans. It has ...

Sea monsters have a prominent role in myths and legends of ... a tentacled beast bothering seamen or generally getting up to no good,' Jon says. In ancient Greece, Aristotle and Pliny wrote about ...

Information about the history of Greece during ancient times: the formation of the city-state ... and agriculture were founded all around the Mediterranean Basin and the Black Sea. This way, the Greek ...