There are very few remains of ancient ships, except in one unusual place: the Black Sea has a unique environment that ...

The legendary ancient Greek courtesan Lais of Corinth was famous for her beauty that left no man resistant to her charms, and her extravagant demands and sharp tongue ...

The history of Insurance goes back to ancient Greece as people employed insurance-like practices, predominantly within ...

While diving for sponges near the town of Kyrenia, he stumbled upon the remains of an ancient Greek merchant ship lying quietly on the seabed. What he found would become one of the most ...

Evidence of a similar vessel appears on an ancient Greek vase featuring the infamous Homeric character, Odysseus, tied to its ...

Here are seven examples of ancient technology that were centuries ahead of their time. Found in a Greek shipwreck in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism shocked researchers for decades. This device ...

The Greek government quickly stepped in to salvage the wreckage, confirming that the ship had sunk circa 70 to 60 BCE. Art from the ancient world was among the items recovered, but so was a ...

Jo Marchant, Nature In 1900, Greek divers rifling through an ancient shipwreck recovered dozens of bronze fragments that turned out to be parts of a 2,000-year-old mechanical calendar. Now ...

Researchers have created a computational model of the Antikythera mechanism to test how it worked. It was prone to jamming ...

It’s a 20-minute walk from the island’s most popular beach, Kolymbithres, but it’s just as nice to shipwreck yourself ... Thermes Pozar Resort exudes ancient Greek luxury, carved of ...

A 4th century ship full of treasures was discovered off ... that are otherwise difficult to ‘see’ through the well-known ancient writers. The Kyrenia crew may have been a band of more marginal ...

Viking Ocean Cruises and Seabourn Cruise Line are very different cruise providers, even though both fall into the luxury ...