The region of Kashmir, India was once ruled by more than 11 Greek kings. Even after the fall of the Greek kingdom ...

i inherited the coin on my father's death and it still holds a fascination for me,not just because of it's age but what it was doing in a tiny hamlet in Derbyshire ...

The Church of Saint Demetrius, the protector of Thessaloniki Greece: Saint Demetrius, or Agios Dimitrios, (208 AD - 303 AD) is the patron saint of Thessaloniki. He was the son of a wealthy military ...

A few more have turned up but it is still excessively rare. The cities of ancient Greece generally used silver for their coins. Gold, with its high value, was unsuitable for small transactions and ...

Long destroyed, the Colossus of Rhodes was a World Wonder that survives in paintings, documentaries, and even a few video ...

Archaeologists have discovered a hoard of Persian gold coins in the ancient Greek city-state of Notion, on the west coast of ...

medieval and Ottoman eras Demetrios Ioannou Pierre de Coubertin hoped the modern Games would encourage the ancient Greek notion of harmony between "muscle and mind" ...

Saint Demetrius was a Thessalonian, a most pious son of pious and noble parents, and a teacher of the Faith of Christ. When Maximian first came to Thessalonica in 290, he raised the Saint to the rank ...

Discovering ancient treasure resulted in a major payday for the lucky finder. A 34-year-old archaeologist named George Ridgway found a collection of more than 680 gold and silver coins with his ...

A British man who found a massive cache of ancient Roman gold and silver coins while hunting with a metal detector has a lot more modern currency in his pocket after the treasure was auctioned off ...

Sep. 25, 2024 — Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back approximately 3,600 years.

The Colossus commemorated Rhodes’ victory over the Macedonian forces led by Demetrius I, a general under Alexander the Great. After repelli ...