The strategic, cultural, and economic significance of ancient Greek colonies in the Black Sea and their enduring legacy.

This is called biphasic sleeping and it may be much more common than you think. In the 8th-Century BC epic poem, the Odyssey, Homer refers to the ‘first sleep’, in what is one of the earliest ...

It also appealed to their sense of heroism and adventure. Starting in the 8th century BC, colonies were eventually founded all over the Mediterranean, from Naples in Italy, to Marseilles in France ...

The Old Town of Corfu, on the Island of Corfu off the western coasts of Albania and Greece, is located in a strategic position at the entrance of the Adriatic Sea, and has its roots in the 8th century ...

At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian King Sennacherib chose Nineveh as his capital and built what he called the 'Palace without Rival', decorating it with finely carved reliefs.