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From Mycenaean to Macedon: The prominence of Eretria in Greek colonization

Eretria was destroyed during the First Mithridatic War and gradually fell into decline

WWII lesson for Trump: Turkey was in bed with the Nazis

Turkey turned to our side in August 1944 -two months after Normandy- when it appeared that the Nazis were going to lose after all...

Incredible photos of longest cruise ship ever passing through Isthmus of Corinth (photos)

It is 195.92 meters long

New finds from the excavation at Sissi, Crete

These types of burials are relatively rare on Crete

The Theatre of Ohrid, where the Greeks played and the Romans slayed!

The turbulent history of the Theatre of Ohrid

The brave Greek priest who held a Divine Liturgy in Hagia Sophia in 1919

The Turks watched in silence, still unable to grasp at that point what was actually taking place inside the Church....

The fearsome Wicker Man: An eerie way Druids committed Human Sacrifice

Strabo records that “cattle and wild animals and all sorts of human beings” were thrown into this colossus, and then burnt

Last of the Kings of Egypt: The Ptolemaic Dynasty

The Ptolemies were not native Egyptians, but Greek by descent

Hitler’s only aircraft carrier was a total failure

Germany laid down its first carrier in December 1936 and launched the Graf Zeppelin two years later. It would never enter service...

Why didn’t Nazi Germany use chemical weapons during the D-Day invasion?

Those who fought the Germans knew better than to underestimate them

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