Nearchus, the Navigator, bridged East and West with a daring voyage that reshaped ancient maritime strategy and trade routes.

The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

“You can detect their presence in one single site,” says Panagiotis Athanasopoulos, an archaeologist at Greece’s Danish ... could even help reveal ancient trading routes, Andriopoulou ...

For many years, the ancient Greeks and Romans were fooled ... This demand gave rise to some of the first truly international trade routes and shaped the structure of the world economy in a ...