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The Battle of Marathon, 490 BC ⚔️ First Persian invasion of ancient Greece

5th century BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from ...
Greek Reporter

The Ancient Greek Myth That Likely Inspired Jesus’ Virgin Birth

The Greek myth of Danaë and Perseus shaped ancient debates about the virgin birth of Jesus and early Christian identity.
Greek Reporter

The “World’s First Cruise Liner” Was Designed by Archimedes

World's first colossal ship, not unlike a modern cruise liner, was designed and built by the ancient Greek mathematician ...
Greek City Times

From Ancient Greek to Holiday Signs: The Story Behind Xmas

"Xmas" is not a modern attempt to remove Christ from Christmas but a sacred abbreviation rooted in early Christian tradition, using the Greek letter chi to represent "Christos." ...

We discovered an ancient 'party boat' in the waters of Alexandria. Here's what might have happened on board

Beneath the shifting waters of Alexandria's eastern harbor, on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, lie the drowned remnants of a ...
Mind Body Globe on MSN

3 advanced inventions discovered in ancient ruins that shouldn't exist

An Ancient Computer That Predicted the Cosmos Discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera around 1901, this device was used to predict astronomical positions, eclipses, and ...
All That's Interesting

A Strange Hole In The Skeleton Of An Ancient Greek Man Helps Researchers To Solve Murder Mystery

When a team of archaeologists discovered the remains of 57 people at an excavation site on the Greek island of Thasos, one ...