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The coins were likely used to pay Greek and barbarian merceneries.
The findings may explain why Greece has been a hotbed for human civilization.
Grab a slice!
The catalog was thought to be lost -- but was now rediscovered.
The future is here, and it looks drenched in
Their customs and advances still shape our lives today.
Now that sounds like a celebration one can get behind.
The resurgence of a preventable disease.
The stuff of legends.
The settlement, named Dhaskalio, was simply stunning for its time.
One ship to carry a huge legacy.
An army made to last forever.
The ancient bones could offer valuable DNA information from an ancient shipwreck victim.
It's way older than divers thought.
The ancient Greek shipwreck that produced the awesome Antikythera mechanism, hailed as the world's first analog computer (being almost two millenia old), had archaeologists' collective pants full of ants and it seems that their enthusiasm was well placed. The shipwreck is slowly yielding new artifacts, offering a glimpse into the lifestyles of the ancient "1%" in the Hellenic peninsula.
Chersonesos was an ancient city on the Crimean peninsula, in today’s Ukraine; the name itself means ‘peninsula’, and Greeks founded it some 2500 years ago, to supply their homeland with grain and other strategic resources. The famed Greek city-states had much need of such resources in order to survive and thrive. Archaeologists from Aarhus (Denmark) […]
Extraordinary enough, an ancient Greek tablet dating far as back as 1450-1350 BC was found last summer in an olive grove in what’s now the village of Iklaina, which makes it the oldest readable piece of writing found in Europe. The position and time frame of the artifact places it in the time of the […]
