The Babylonian oldest map solved revealing ancient beliefs about Mesopotamia and mysterious lands beyond the known world.

In 1407, "Geographia" translated his Greek works into Latin and reproduced Ptolemy's World Map. Moroccan geographer Muhammad ...

From its very beginning the Roman Republic was a highly unified state, much more so than any of its Greek counterparts, though with its emphasis on foreign conquest it did share some similarities ...

Major discoveries, from ancient tombs to submerged cities, reveal the incredible advancements of Greek civilization.

Hundreds of thousands of British tourists travel to Greece annually- some areas are very well-trodden. Many people travel to Athens to see famous sites such as the Parthenon, while others head to ...

The language and culture of the Hellenistic world was Greek. That became the lingua franca of all of these subject peoples. It was to that world what English is to the modern world in many ways ...

All BBC World Service programmes in Greek can be heard on FM on the frequencies of local stations with whom the Greek Section has re-broadcasting agreements. Our principal re-broadcasting partners ...

Greece has emerged from controversial bailout programmes that came with years of austerity - here's a very quick guide on why this happened. In 2008 the world's worst financial crisis in almost 80 ...

Tens of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes and abandon holidays on Greek islands including Rhodes and Corfu as fires spread across the region. In Rhodes a black scar has ...

A man in Greece was given a suspended one-month prison ... on the rising anti-Jewish prejudice across the U.S. and the world." ...

“I live inside the problem.” Last year, Tzortzinis turned his lens on Greece’s rise as a waypoint for the world’s most hopeful. He went to the outer islands and picked up freelance work ...

This book gives a comprehensive and fully illustrated history of mosaics in the Greek and Roman world, and studies their development over a thousand years throughout the Roman Empire. Chapters are ...