The Dorian invasion theory hypothesizes that a large-scale migration or invasion was responsible for dramatic changes to ...

Inventions occasionally paint a very different picture of our ancient world. Ancient inventions can be groundbreaking. They give us more insight into past cultures, people, and technology.

A map showing the extent of the Ionic Greek ... CC BY SA 4.0 The Doric Greek dialect was a very important dialect of Ancient Greek, spoken primarily in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece, ...

View of the three-dimensional map on the Ségognole 3 cave floor. Credit: Dr. Médard Thiry Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest 3D map, located within a quartzitic sandstone ...

The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between Sparta and Athens. Load Map What is the travel distance between Athens, Greece and Sparta, Greece? How many miles is it from ...

Britannica also reported that Lycurgus was, in Greek traditions, the lawgiver who founded most of the institutions in ancient ... that made Sparta unique among the city-state of Greece.” ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

By Graham Bowley The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a ... that has been expanded from six to 11. The ancient Greeks often decorated their bronze cauldrons ...

A new study of ancient DNA from fifth- to sixth-century Hun skeletons suggests they were a motley crew of mixed origin with a few connections to the Xiongnu Empire in Mongolia.

For the first time in history, archaeologists have mapped an entire ancient Roman city using ground-penetrating ... new technology has allowed experts to see through layers of ground and map the town ...

Still, he points to ancient Greece, and the commentary of Thucydides, the Athenian historian who lived in the 5th century BC. In his writings on the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens for ...