(How do we know what ancient Greek warriors wore for battle? It's in 'The Iliad.') The trireme, master of the seasThe trireme was the warship of choice in classical Greece. It was later used ...

Just 50 kilometers south of Athens, between Thoricus and Cape Sounion, lies the mines of Laurion. Silver, copper, lead have ...

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country ... They also grew their hair long and would comb it before going into battle. Greek warships had oars as well as sails. The largest Greek warships ...

Now, explorers have recovered a piece of that final battle: the bronze battering ram of an ancient warship ... dominance in the Mediterranean. As the Greek historian Polybius later wrote, the ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis recently ... from which the famous three-tiered warships, known as triremes, set ...