The Ancient Greek Dark Ages came after the powerful Mycenaean Era. But what actually were the Greek Dark Ages, and how did ...

The religions of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans, often simply called “classical religion,” are often viewed as ...

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be ...

The papyrus details the prosecution of two main defendants: Gadalias, a notary’s son and something of an ancient Roman “bad ...

Despite the importance of Crete to ancient Greek civilization, archaeological study of its culture is relatively recent. Some of the earliest traces of a powerful, Bronze Age civilization were ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Sparta’s enemies, when facing the intimidating Spartan forces, would see a wall of shields ...

Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium. In 800BC, almost 300 years after the Dark Age began, Greek civilisation slowly emerged again. The Greeks started trading more with the outside world ...

The Greek Ambassador to Cairo, Nikolaos Papageorgiou, delivered a speech marking the significance of 9 February as the ...

What we see here is not just a symbol of ancient Greek civilization but also the crystallization of human art and wisdom." “Shanxi is mainly characterized by wooden ancient architecture ...