Archaic Greece: Did you mean...?

Artist's impressions of a discussion of geometric concepts between citizens in ancient Greece. Created by Amplitude Studios for the video game Humankind.

The Battle on the plain of Marathon in September 490 BCE between Greeks and the invading forces of Persian king Darius I (r. 522-486 BCE) was a victory that would go down in folklore as the moment the Greek city-states showed...

Mycenean Greece and the Orient about 1450 BC. Inset: Reference Map of the Nile Delta.

The Beginnings of Historic Greece. 700 - 600 B.C.

The isolated gazebo in Thessaloniki, Greece gives motivation to the locals for a retreat to the mountains.

The coastal landscape of Chalcidice, a few kilometers before Kassandra, Greece.

The Pinson Mounds are a State Archeological Park in Madison County, Tennessee, USA enclosing a prehistoric Native American religious site comprising earthen mounds built during the Middle Woodland Period (c. 200 BCE - 500 CE). Although...

Themistocles (c. 524 - c. 460 BCE) was an Athenian statesman and general (strategos) whose emphasis on naval power and military skills were instrumental during the Persian wars, victory in which ensured that Greece survived its greatest...

Lexical lists are compilations of cuneiform signs and word readings written on clay tablets throughout Mesopotamia. From the late 4th millennium BCE up to the 1st century CE, scribal communities copied, modified, and passed...

The Heraion of Argos is an ancient temple in Argos, Greece. It was part of the greatest sanctuary in the Argolid, dedicated to the goddess Hera. The sanctuary grew and expended during the Archaic and Classical period and...