The strategic, cultural, and economic significance of ancient Greek colonies in the Black Sea and their enduring legacy.

The ancient Greeks established cities across the four corners of the Mediterranean. However, the Black Sea was of particular importance to them, with the area becoming a hub of the ancient Greek world ...

Greece was the poster child for economic collapse, with a crippling debt crisis, sky-high unemployment, and a struggling ...

Ancient Greece gave us many things, from mythology to democracy by way of the Olympics, but if I recall my (very) old primary-school project correctly, one thing Archimedes and pals never got ...

Did the Ancient Greeks really invent the Olympics? What did they wear? How did they party? What did Ancient Greek music sound like? In the first episode of a new series, host of 'The Ancients' podcast ...

A survey of economic life in ancient Greece and Rome, which involved both primitive subsistence agriculture and a complex international marketplace of luxury goods—often tightly regulated by predatory ...

Greece’s economy continues to demonstrate resilience with robust GDP growth, projected to reach approximately 2.3% for 2024 and expected to hold steady into 2025. Economic forecasts vary, with the ...

From the gastronomic specialties of Sifnos to the enigmatic ruins of the Dodecanese, each Greek island has its own distinct ...

(Bertil Mächtle/Heidelberg University) "The changes coincide with the conquest of Hellenistic Greece by the Romans, who subsequently claimed for themselves the region's wealth of resources," explains ...

Lead pollution in and around the Aegean Sea dates back to the Bronze Age and shows a strong spike associated with Roman ...

Athens City For professionals who are looking to relocate to Greece, there is nowhere more prosperous to be than the Greek ...

Napoleon was crowned in December 1804 and 11 years later, in June 1815, lost at Waterloo. In these 11 years, he united Europe ...