Nafplion from above. Credit: Mtale /Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0 Known by almost every Greek citizen as the first capital city of modern Greece, but inexplicably remaining relatively unknown to the ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece ... “redrew the map of the world” by force ...

At school, Sommer planned to specialize in sciences, but one day his history teacher showed pupils a map of Alexander’s ... Visitors to modern-day Iran can see remains of the empire at Persepolis, ...

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere ... who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty ...

The Mediterranean Sea used to be filled with pirates who terrorized not only Ancient Greece but Rome as well. Long before the ...

he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere, conquering land across three continents and ruling over states from Egypt to modern-day India — over 2,000 years ago. Since his death in 323 BCE, the ...

A trove of "ancient treasures" was recently found in a third-century shipwreck near Greece. Not only did this trove include ...