Keros (Greek: Κέρος; anciently, Keria or Kereia (Ancient Greek: Κέρεια) is an uninhabited and unpopulated Greek island in the Cyclades about 10 km (6 mi) southeast of Naxos.Administratively it is part of the community of Koufonisia.It has an area of 15 km 2 (6 sq mi) and its highest point is 432 m (1,417 ft). It was an important site to the Cycladic civilization that flourished ...

Several periodisations are employed for the periodisation of the Indus Valley Civilisation. While the Indus Valley Civilisation was divided into Early, Mature, and Late Harappan by archaeologists like Mortimer Wheeler, newer periodisations include the Neolithic early farming settlements, and use a stage–phase model, often combining terminology from various systems.

Troy (Greek: Τροία and Latin: Troia, Hittite: ???????????????? Truwiša) or Ilion (Greek: Ίλιον and Latin: Ilium, Hittite: ???????????? Wiluša) was an ancient city located at Hisarlik in present-day Turkey, 30 kilometres (19 mi) south-west of Çanakkale and about 6 kilometres (4 mi) miles east of the Aegean Sea.It is known as the setting for the Greek myth of the Trojan War.

The ancient Olympic Games (Ὀλυμπιακοὶ ἀγῶνες; Latin: Olympia, neuter plural: "the Olympics") were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and were one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece.They were held in honor of Zeus, and the Greeks gave them a mythological origin.The originating Olympic Games are traditionally dated to 776 BC.

The Lusatian culture existed in the later Bronze Age and early Iron Age (1700 BC – 500 BC) in most of what is now Poland and parts of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, eastern Germany and western Ukraine.It covers the Periods Montelius III (early Lusatian culture) to V of the Northern European chronological scheme.. There were close contacts with the Nordic Bronze Age.

Life in Greece continued under the Roman Empire much the same as it had previously. Roman culture was highly influenced by the Greeks; as Horace said, Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit ("Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror"). The epics of Homer inspired the Aeneid of Virgil, and authors such as Seneca the Younger wrote using Greek styles. Some Roman nobles …

Taormina (UK: / ˌ t ɑː ɔːr ˈ m iː n ə / TAH-or-MEE-nə, US: /-n ɑː /-⁠nah, also / t aʊər ˈ-/, Italian: [ta.orˈmiːna]; Sicilian: Taurmina) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina, on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy.Taormina has been a tourist destination since the 19th century. Its beaches on the Ionian sea, including that of Isola Bella ...

Oia or Ia (Greek: Οία, pronounced ) is a small village and former community in the South Aegean on the islands of Thira and Therasia, in the Cyclades, Greece.Since the 2011 local government reform it has been part of the municipality of Santorini, of which it is a municipal unit.. Oia was previously known as Apäno Meria (Απάνω Μεριά or Επάνω Μεριά, "upper side"), a name ...

Socrates (/ ˈ s ɒ k r ə t iː z /; Greek: Σωκράτης; c. 470 –399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his …

Greek War of Independence; Top Left: The camp of Georgios Karaiskakis at Phaliro.Top Right: The burning of an Ottoman frigate by a Greek fire ship.Bottom Right: The Battle of Navarino.Bottom Left: Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt at the Third Siege of Missolonghi.

Etruscan vase painting was produced from the 7th through the 4th centuries BC, and is a major element in Etruscan art. It was strongly influenced by Greek vase painting, followed the main trends in style, especially those of Athens, over the period, but lagging behind by some decades.The Etruscans used the same techniques, and largely the same shapes.

The Battle of Thermopylae (/ θ ər ˈ m ɒ p ɪ l iː / thər-MOP-i-lee; Greek: Μάχη τῶν Θερμοπυλῶν, Máchē tōn Thermopylōn) was fought in 480 BC between the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Xerxes I and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta under Leonidas I.Lasting over the course of three days, it was one of the most prominent battles of both the second Persian ...

Hittite art was produced by the Hittite civilization in ancient Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey, and also stretching into Syria during the second millennium BCE from the nineteenth century up until the twelfth century BCE. This period falls under the Anatolian Bronze Age.It is characterized by a long tradition of canonized images and motifs rearranged, while still being recognizable, by …