The first true alphabet was an invention of the Greek world, revolutionizing writing, literacy, and shaping foundations of ...

UNESCO studied the history of the Greek language and recognized its universal importance, highlighting its millennia of ...

Crete in fact built such a sophisticated civilization that it became nearly ... also says that Minos’ navy was the first in the Greek world. With such a pioneering force, Minos became a master ...

The shift from ancient to modern metropolises often leaves historians and curious minds asking: which are the oldest ...

Throughout the twentieth century and for almost two decades of the twenty-first century ... It was Hellenic civilization in miniature. 2. Jacob Burckhardt, The Greeks and Greek Civilization ...

We'll trace that spark of human creativity from the Stone Age to the pyramids of Egypt to the artistic treasures of Europe's first great civilization. Greece. Starting from the very beginning ...