The strategic, cultural, and economic significance of ancient Greek colonies in the Black Sea and their enduring legacy.

but after their underwater cameras probed the depths of the Black Sea they quickly saw why the Greeks nicknamed it the “Hostile Sea.” In its deep, dark waters, ancient shipwrecks are scattered ...

Many of the Greeks living in the Pontic Alps and nearby Black Sea coast chose to relocate to Greece, including the monks of ...

One major reason why ancient Greece was dominated by small ... Byzantium, close to the Black Sea, and numerous cities all along the western coast of modern-day Turkey. These colonies remained ...

Excavations of an ancient Byzantine shipwreck off the coast of Fournoi near Samos, Greece are bringing new finds onto the ...