Ancient Athens was sacked four times, starting with the Persian invasion in 480 BC and ending with the Visigoth destruction ...

The Ionian League, was a confederation of twelve Ionian Greek city-states located along the coast of Asia Minor.

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient ... Athens, Sparta, Corinth and Olympia. Each city-state ruled itself. They had their own governments, laws and army.

It is known that an invading Persian army in 480 BC destroyed buildings erected in the Acropolis of Athens at the time. Ancient Greek documents from before the Persian attack also point to several ...

Greek myth states that the region near Asini was first populated by the Dryopes, an ancient tribe driven out by Hercules.

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta ... but the impact of its unique culture is impossible to ignore. Unlike Athens to the north, Sparta was famed for its austerity—its “spartan ...

When the Persian army landed at Marathon in 490 BC, the Athenians chose Phidippides, their best runner, to send word to other Greeks of the invasion. Setting out from Athens, Phidippides made for ...

Dating back to 210–209 BCE, this intricate army demonstrates the sophistication of ancient Chinese craftsmanship ... once adorned the Parthenon in Athens, created in the 5th century BCE.