The mythical conflict took place outside the walls of Troy, an ancient city on the coast of Asia Minor. But the seeds of war were sown far from there, in the city of Sparta on the Greek mainland.

The mythical conflict took place outside the walls of Troy, an ancient city on the coast of Asia Minor. But the seeds of war were sown far from there, in the city of Sparta on the Greek mainland.

Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these would barely qualify as towns in modern terms. Even Athens, by far the largest of all city-states, only contained ...

Alexander the Great founded over 70 cities and created an empire that stretched across three continents, covering 2 million square miles. There was never one country called ‘ancient Greece’.

Alexander the Great founded over 70 cities and created an empire that stretched across three continents, covering 2 million square miles. There was never one country called ‘ancient Greece’.

In the British Museum in London collections, there is an extraordinary artefact known as Imago Mundi, or the "Babylonian Map of the World ... revealed to track ancient Greek lunar calendar ...

Constant expansion has introduced a sense of modernism to this ancient ... to as "Art City." Gazi is believed to have been named for the black gas fumes (or "gazi" in Greek) that once flowed ...