The main thing that ancient Greeks and Vikings had in common was their love of the sea. Both were seafaring peoples, yet the former were traders and explorers, while the latter were mostly plunderers.
GreekReporter Collage of Uxmal Royal Entrance, Mexico and Ara Paxis, Rome Credit: Dennis Jarvis/Flickr and Andy Hay/Wikimedia commons CC BY-SA 2.0 The suggestion that ancient Greeks reached America ...
“It shows up in Indian chessboards, Islamic mosaics, and keffiyehs, Greek and Roman tiles, and textiles across the globe.” Potts notes that the checkerboard pattern is a prolific design that ...
It’s unknown why they came back, but it shows the Clovis people had activity patterns. “It really shows there is a strict organization to the camp site,” Nash says. Ancient people who used Clovis ...
The ancient Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and lasting until ...