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Longest Known Inscription in the Undeciphered Linear A Script of Minoan civilization, Found on an Ivory Scepter in Knossos
A team of archaeologists has discovered in Knossos, on the Greek island of Crete, the longest Linear A inscription found to ...
Greek City Times17d
Possibly an Elite Ancient Greek Necropolis: Ukrainian Soldiers Uncover 6th–5th Century BC Burial Site in Southern Ukraine
Experts identified it as an Ionian amphora, a ritual vessel from Greece used in burial rites. Further digs exposed an oinochoe—a three-spouted, single-handled jug for pouring wine at symposia, the ...
Greek Reporter18d
Ancient Greece’s Ionian League: The First Confederation in History
The Library of Celsus in Ephesus, is one of the major Ionian League city-states of Ancient Greece. Credit: Benh Lieu Song CC BY-SA- 3.0 Greece’s Ionian League, also known as the Ionian Dodecapolis, ...
‘A bad joke’: Greece gives green light to oil drilling while expanding marine protected areas
Carved out of Greece’s Ionian coastline, they surround marine protected areas (MPAs) set aside to safeguard endangered species such as whales, dolphins, Monk seals and Loggerhead turtles. At the same ...
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Study Finds Deepest Point of Mediterranean in Greece’s Ionian Sea Is Full of Litter
Credit: Michaelis Scientists CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons The first ever assessment of litter in the deepest place of the Mediterranean, located in the Hellenic Trench in Greece’s eastern Ionian ...
National Geographic news26d
How to spend a week sailing around Greece's Ionian islands
We all met yesterday on the island of Lefkada (sometimes known as Lefkas), which sits in the Ionian Sea just off the west coast of Greece. It has deep connections to Homer’s epic poem The ...