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30 famous Greek landmarks beyond the Acropolis

Greece is home to one of the most important collections of ancient monuments in the world. These landmarks, built in ...

Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know

This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know ...
Greek Reporter

Greek Alphabet’s Phoenician Origins Questioned After 2,500 Years

Reexamining the Greek alphabet, Herodotus’ story of Phoenician origins may obscure earlier Linear B writing on palm leaves.

Thessaloniki’s Armenian minority and Jewish past are bound by a shared history of genocide

In an 1882-84 census conducted by the Ottoman government, Jews accounted for about 48,000, or 56%, of the city’s 85,000 ...
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Why Did Ancient Greece Decline?

This video examines the decline of Classical Greece after the age of Athens and Alexander, tracing how political domination ...
Greek Reporter

The Life of Heinrich Schliemann, the Discoverer of Troy

Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann was a larger-than-life figure, discovering Troy in what is now Hisarlik, in modern-day Turkey.