What was life like some 8,000–9,000 years ago for the people on the East Mound at Çatalhöyük, an important Neolithic ...

The ancient Greeks shared the Classical world with many fascinating neighboring cultures who rarely receive much mainstream ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this ...

The Chimera was a fearsome creature from Ancient Greece that was a mixture of animal features, said to inhabit Lycia in Asia ...

Anatolia — historically known as Asia Minor — is an ancient, culturally significant peninsula that’s been home to a wide range of civilizations over the course of thousands of years.

Though he travelled in most parts of Anatolia, ... For the methods of pioneer research, however, his “Historical Geography of Asia Minor”(1890) is a turning-point, ...

The Aeneid was written by the Roman poet Virgil (70-19 BC) many centuries after the Odyssey and is based on the legend of Aeneas, a member of the royal family ruling Troy in nowadays Anatolia ...

The archaeological site at Notion spans 80 acres atop a promontory in western Anatolia, a borderland dividing Asia from Europe. It was one of the Greek-speaking communities that emerged in the ...