Archaeologists in Selinunte, Italy, have uncovered the sacred chamber of oldest known Greek temple of the ancient city.

On the contrary, Sicily was one of the most important Greek colonies in ancient times and the island is full of extremely ...

The largest archeological area in Europe at about 670 acres, this site was once home to one of the largest Greek colonies on the island, dating to 600 B.C. Today, visitors can tour the ruins of ...

Archaeologists in Agrigento, Sicily just unearthed an ancient classroom where students listened to lectures more than 2,000 years ago. One of the most impressive auditoriums ever built by the ...

Apollo, the son of Zeus in Greek mythology, was associated with the founding of colonies in ancient Greece and therefore was commonly worshiped in the Greek city-states of Sicily. Lorenzo Campagna, a ...

The colonising Greeks first settled in Sicily in 735 BC, and eventually Magna Graecia, the collective name for all its Italian colonies, became richer and more powerful than Greece itself.

In the first battle of 480 BCE, the Himerans prevailed with the aid of two other Greek colonies, Agrigento and Syracuse, whose tyrants could afford to hire mercenaries as bodyguards to maintain ...

The Sicily of antiquity, rich in resources and strategically located, was home to both Greek and Carthaginian colonies, which for a long time coexisted amicably.