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

Beginning in the 14th century, when Greece was wracked by political and social struggles, monks began building a series of ...

Roman mosaic in ancient Nicaea reveals rare portrait of Lake Ascania as a woman, offering new insight into İznik’s ...

Geography is destiny for nations, and history the proof. The Greeks saw the physical world as an encircling environment (a word we take from the Old French viron, circuit). The Romans applied Greek ...

EARTH can be a confusing enough place these days but explorers from thousands of years ago had it much worse. Below is a round up of whimsical ancient maps that include phantom islands, legendary ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Many of the artefacts and stories that have been preserved from ancient Greece relate to warfare, which ...