Greek Reporter

How Ancient Greeks Invented the World Map We Use Today

Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...
Ancient Origins

Ancient Mesopotamian Map May Be World's First Urban Blueprint

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...
Greek Reporter

Five Ancient Greek Mysteries That Still Defy Logic

The story of Phidippides and Pan, the god of the wild, stands as the most baffling episode of the Ancient Greek world—one of ...
Los Angeles Times

What the ancient world can teach us about death

I first became fascinated by death when I was 8 and my mummy took me to the British Museum to look at the mummies. When, at a slightly older age, I began to study death and the ancient world what ...