Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age.

Meanwhile, in Northern Greece, the Palace of Pella—the birthplace of Alexander the Great— finally opened to the public in ...

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Lost cities, missing tombs, and unexplained occurrences. History still holds unanswered questions for these seven events.

History is filled with powerful empires that seemed invincible until they weren't. Between roughly 1250 and 1150 BCE, major ...

But why the issue in the first place? Most of us understand that throughout history, artwork has been stolen and moved from ...

Tucked away in the rolling hills of Kentucky’s Bluegrass region sits Harrodsburg, a place where the past doesn’t just echo—it practically pulls up a rocking chair next to you and starts telling ...

An ambitious new plans for reforming football will blend a creative and technical approach with ideas drawn from national ...

Whether motivated by politics or drunken revelry, the destruction of Persepolis haunted its conqueror until the end of his ...

Archaeologists excavating in İzmir, Turkey unearthed the head of a Hellenistic statue believed to depict the Greek goddess ...