Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

New research into the legend of Atlantis strengthens the theory that Plato's mysterious island was really Santorini.

Standing amidst the ruins of Troy, with its weathered stones and crumbling walls, one cannot help but feel a connection to ...

Fifty years ago, in the ancient town of Vergina, northern Greece, archaeologists found three royal tombs. They were thought to contain the remains of the family of Alexander the Great, dating back to ...