Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...

Scientists have detected several thousand earthquakes, the vast majority of them with small magnitudes, in just over two ...

Alexander Papageorgiou-Venetas - has spent the past half a century living between Athens and Munich - and has told ekathimerini.com about Athens' "orderliness and tranquility".

Apollonius is far from the only ancient scholar whose work was saved by the medieval Islamic tradition: “we generally ...

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere ... who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian ...

While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece, it's this one in central Athens that garners the most attention. In fact, it's routinely referred to simply as "The ...

Google said that once the G.N.I.S. made the change, it would “quickly” follow suit in its popular Maps application, which is a crucial source of information about geography for more than two ...

On Tuesday, she toned it down: “For us and for the entire world it will continue to be called the Gulf of Mexico.” Map lines are inherently political. After all, they're representations of the places ...

Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED It's totally understandable if you haven’t opened Apple Maps since its disastrous launch in 2012, which among other things saw people ...

We have encountered a fascinating social media map that illustrates the Greek world through archaeological discoveries. This map, created by a user on Google Maps, spans the Iberian Peninsula to India ...

Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...