Archaeologists have possibly come across the world’s oldest intact shipwreck in the Black Sea
Last week we talked about one of the largest concentrations of shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea. As it turns out, the ancient Greek colonies along…
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Ancient Teion possibly harks back to the first Greek settlement along the Black Sea
While archaeological excavations have done its fair share of tending to the historical legacy of ancient Greeks in modern-day Greece and western Anatolia, a significant…
Archaeologists excavate Amasra, an almost 5,000-year old ancient city by the Black Sea
Amasra (derived from Greek Amastris) currently corresponds to an idyllic Black Sea port town in present-day Turkey’s Bartın Province. But hiding beneath this veneer of…
Ancient Roman city of Prusias ad Hypium to be refurbished into an archaeopark
Prusias ad Hypium was a Graeco-Roman city (that thrived in the late Roman period) in the Anatolian province of Honorias, encompassing ancient Bithynia and Paphlagonia,…
1,700-year old Roman villa ruins found in the site of Prusias ad Hypium, by the Black Sea coast
Prusias ad Hypium was a late Roman era city in the Anatolian province of Honorias (encompassing ancient Bithynia and Paphlagonia), with its ruins present in…
5th century BC victory stele of Persian king Darius I found in Russia
In one of our previous articles about the Achaemenid realm, we mentioned how the Persian empire was the largest superpower in the ancient world (circa…
