Famous natural disasters in the ancient world A number of natural disasters involving earthquakes and tsunamis were especially famous in ancient Greek and Roman times.

Around 1,500 Latin inscriptions are discovered every year, offering an invaluable view into the daily life of ancient Romans—and posing a daunting challenge for the historians tasked with ...

The ruined city of Mystras on the Peloponnese is a stop on almost every cultural tour of Greece, but it can also be explored independently by car or public bus. TRAVELBOOK provides an overview ...

Ancient Akrotiri is ranked #5 out of 13 things to do in Santorini. See pictures and our review of Ancient Akrotiri.

An ancient city dating to between 7,000 and 5,000 B.C.E., Athens is considered the birthplace of Western civilization. During the city's Golden Age, great thinkers, writers and artists, such as ...

Atlantis is an island nation mentioned in two of the Greek philosopher Plato’s most famous dialogues, Timaeus and Critias. In them, he describes the ancient civilization as peaceful and vastly ...

The ancient city of Laodicea, located near modern-day Denizli, Turkey. Credit: Alberto Trentanni / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,000-year-old assembly building in the ancient Greek ...

The city of Aigai, the ancient first capital of the Kingdom of Macedonia, was discovered in the 19th century near Vergina, in northern Greece. The most important remains are the monumental palace, ...

Scylax of Caryanda was a Greek explorer sent by Persian King Darius I to chart the Indus River, shaping early Greek understanding of India.

The Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe, a semi-desert landscape between the Nile and Atbara rivers, was the heartland of the Kingdom of Kush, a major power from the 8th century B.C. to the ...