The ancient Greeks settled on the Aeolian Islands sometime in the Bronze Age where they traded with their neighbors ...

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a Roman mosaic and an almost intact cistern in the ancient Greek city of Syedra.

The ancient city of Troy was located along the northwest coast of Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey. It occupied a strategic position on the Dardanelles, a narrow water channel that connects the ...

This is surprising when taking into account the minor importance of the location within the Roman province. However, it remains an open question as to what it was that turned the situation around, ...

The secret tomb of an ancient Egyptian general who ran an army ... Neith was in charge of recruiting soldiers of fortune from Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands. The burial shaft dates back to ...

One of Cyrus’s many conquests was the kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor. Among ancient rulers, few were as rich as Croesus. His realm contained large deposits of electrum, an alloy of gold and ...

A school project led Celene Kumaru to discover her roots in Asia Minor and the escape of her great-grandfather's family from Smyrna in 1922. She tells his story through his memoirs. Celene ...