Based on the ancient Greek words ákros for “high point” and pólis for “city,” acropolis means roughly “high city,” and can refer to any similarly situated citadel. High fortresses ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Ancient Polis Travel back 2600 years to ancient Greece. Build and manage your city (polis) and experience and shape the life of the ancient Greeks on ...

It is the first attempt to provide an integrated account which gives due attention to the countryside as well as the urban areas of a polis. Concentrating on classical Athens, for which the literary ...

In this movement Athens was the great exception and not the rule, as the ancient books teach us. “Most of the texts written by ancient authors and preserved until today were written in such polis and ...

Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium. In 800BC, almost 300 years after the Dark Age began, Greek civilisation slowly emerged again. The Greeks started trading more with the outside world ...

Archaeologists have unearthed two Roman bone game stones at the ancient city of Hadrianopolis, dating back to the 5th century ...