Greece Archive

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Although this 1700 years old luxury villa was excavated and examined both in 1856 and in the 1990s, it still has secrets to

AncientPages.com - Ancient historians loved to write about warfare and famous battles. While these millennia-old stories still feed modern imaginations – Homer’s “Iliad” provides the plot for the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Mycenaean culture in Bronze Age Greece is not only famous for works of art such as the "Gold Mask of Agamemnon", but

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that "stressed poetry," the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Monkeys appear in Grecian frescoes dating back to the Bronze Age 3,600 years ago, but monkeys are not native to Greece or the

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - People have always turned to a higher power to solve their problems or seek advice. Cursing others was a widespread and popular activity

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Neanderthals and earlier humans inhabited Stelida, a prehistoric quarry on the northwest coast of Naxos, Greece at least 200,000 years ago - tens

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When and where did the first human appear? For years, archaeologists and scientists have tried to answer this troublesome question and new discoveries

Conny Waters - AnientPages.com - A temple dedicated to Goddess Nemesis has been unearthed under an ancient theater in Mytilene, on the northeast island of Lesvos, Greece. In Greek

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com  - A wave of migrants from what is now Greece and Turkey arrived in Britain some 6,000 years ago and replaced the existing hunter-gatherers

AncientPages.com - Researchers from the University of Athens have reconstructed the face of a Greek teenage girl, who is believed to be between 15 and 18 years old. Her

AncientPages.com - The oldest known human-like footprints recently preserved in Trachilos, Crete are nearly 6 million years old and represent one of the recent and most fascinating discoveries in paleontology. Fossil footprints

AncientPages.com - During underwater excavations near the Ak-Burun Cape, a place related to the Crimean bridge construction site, divers discovered a part of a unique,  ancient Greek terra-cotta statue,

AncientPages.com - On September 12, 490 BC, the Battle of Marathon was fought on the plain of Marathon. The battle between the Athenians and the Persians is one of history's

AncientPages.com - On April 8, 1820, the Greek farmer Yorgos Kentrotas stumbled upon a damaged statue in a buried niche within the ancient ruins of Milos, Greece. Venus de