In this map of Ancient Greece, you can spot the various regions of the mainland, the islands in the Aegean and the Ionian Sea as well as the Greek colonies in Asia Minor, a region that was first ...

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Bactrian gold discoveries in Asia reveal ancient Greek civilization marks that predate Alexander the Great’s conquests. Credit: No machine-readable source provided CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons ...

as they were known to the ancient Greeks. The Aegean Sea, near the map’s center, was enclosed by three continents, themselves located in the middle of the ocean and isolated like islands by seas and ...

for the artists of Gandhara … took imagery and styles that ultimately originated in ancient Greece, and they made them Buddhist and Asian, and thereby introduced them into the later traditions ...

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The resting place of Noah’s Ark—a ship said in the Bible to have saved two of every animal during an ancient Great Flood sent by God to flush evil out of the world—may have been located ...

Curator Irving Finkel says that the cuneiform writing on the tablet tells of the ancient Babylonians' beliefs and culture.

As their community shrinks, the villagers fear that their ancient mother tongue -- Yaghnobi, an Eastern Iranian language -- will die out if the government and native speakers themselves don’t ...

Forgotten Giants: Were There Really Giants in Ancient Times? One of the most enduring myths of humankind is that pertaining to giants. In almost every major civilization and culture in the world, ...

Found etched into clay cylinders in Syria, the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known alphabetic scripts Sonja Anderson The "Gladiator" sequel centers on Lucius ...