While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

One major reason why ancient Greece was dominated by small city-states and independent towns, rather than by one all-powerful king, is its geography. The country's mountainous terrain, many ...

But Ancient Greece isn’t one big country. Our civilisation has grown from small, rival communities, often cut off from each other by mountains, rivers and the sea, to create the city-states ...

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 ...

The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.

Armed with spear and shield, Hoplites weren’t professional soldiers - they were citizens ready to defend their homeland at a moment’s notice. Here is every country working on trade deals with ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world. The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists, architects and politicians.