The ancient Greeks used olive oil not only as a staple food in daily life, but also as a medicinal substance that shaped ...

Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

All traditions are human inventions that last briefly or, sometimes, forever. Some of those innovations are extremely useful, and last, others vanish, only to be replaced by better alternatives. We ...

Athenian historians correctly identified that the city's port, Piraeus had been an island thousands of years before. Oral tradition is very underrated by moderns. We did manage to keep and share ...

Archaeologists have made an important discovery while exploring Salamis, a small island off the coast of Greece near Athens where a now-sunken city once stood. Scientists found a partially submerged ...