The Battle of Salamis happened during the earlier half of the Greco-Persian Wars, a string of conflicts between ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid, or Persian, Empire that historians say ...

Languages: English, Spanish Previously hidden structures in an ancient Greek city were revealed by the devastating flooding that struck Libya last month. The structures unexpectedly appeared at ...

Bazira is now the second major archaeological site to be discovered in Pakistan after Gor Khatri, where a 40-foot excavation has revealed historical layers of the ancient city. Bazira holds ...

One major reason why ancient Greece was dominated by small city-states and independent towns, rather than by one all-powerful king, is its geography. The country's mountainous terrain, many ...

Many ancient Greek cities had a bouleuterion, which hosted civic ceremonies and sometimes cultural performances. Teos’ bouleuterion would have been the city’s “center of democratic decision ...

The remains of a large rectangular public building, called a stoa, were found in Greece in 2022 as archaeologists explored the ancient sunken city of Salamis. / Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture ...