5+ day, 21+ hour ago  (1500+ words) Between the 14th and 15th centuries, a wave of Greek scholars left their beleaguered homeland in the Byzantine Empire for the Italian Peninsula, where their work would play an important role in the flowering of the Renaissance. The Renaissance, which literally means…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago  (117+ words) The battle for Hungary Your questions answered about Artemis II and space travel Hopes for a 'fragile' Middle East ceasefire Bringing India's daughters back home British Queen Elizabeth II's century of fashion Pakistan: Hospitals putting children at risk of HIV…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (902+ words) The notorious pirate, Barbarossa, who eventually went on to be an admiral in the Ottoman Navy, was surprisingly half Greek. As a pirate, he was extremely successful, and his many victories for the Ottomans in the 16th century helped them secure…...

18+ hour, 20+ min ago  (617+ words) The Cimmerians were a people who were active in Anatolia during the Archaic Era. They came into conflict with the Assyrians, the Phrygians, and the Lydians, among others. Within Greek mythology, they make an intriguing appearance in a very unexpected…...

11+ hour, 55+ min ago  (210+ words) 00: 00 Hello there 00: 56 Titles 01: 16 Medieval Wayside Cross 03: 15 Roman Road 04: 00 Causeway 05: 00 Electronic music 05: 50 Archaeological illustration 06: 16 Li DAR 06: 57 Tie adrift 07: 26 Another exciting development 07: 50 Earlier that day 10: 21 Sense of place 10: 42 Turnpike 10: 58 Picture in a book 13: 03 Smashing through a Romano British settlement 13: 51 Outro Chapter 1: Hello…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (239+ words) (www. Maritime Cyprus. com) The cruise ship, owned by Louis Hellenic Cruises, sank on April 5 2007 after ramming "a reef near the Aegean island of Santorini with 1, 195 passengers and 391 crew on board. All onboard were safely evacuated except a French man,…...

11+ hour, 21+ min ago  (885+ words) Researchers have documented an underwater archaeological corridor between the Greek islands of Karpathos and Kasos. Situated in the southeastern region of the Aegean Sea, the site has preserved more than 2, 600 years of seafaring history. The discovery reveals a continuous record…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (834+ words) For centuries, historians treated Homer's Iliad as literature. A beautiful story about gods, heroes, and a woman beautiful enough to launch a thousand ships to sea. Helen, Achilles, the wooden horse. Fiction. Myth. Poetry. But beneath a hill in northwestern…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (288+ words) A Berkshire town's Roman heritage will be "reimagined" thanks to an "80, 000 government grant. Reading Museum said it plans to use the money to create a new interactive gallery, "based on decades of ground-breaking research by the University of Reading" and…...

23+ hour, 14+ min ago  (902+ words) The letter in which lawyer Moses Saul informed Italian Consul General Guelfo Zamboni of the impending persecution of Thessaloniki's Jews was discovered buried in the archives of the Italian Cultural Institute of Thessaloniki (Instituto Italiano di Cultura), a building recently…...