From historic hillside cities to island destinations, these are 15 of the best towns and cities to visit in Greece. Take a break from ancient Greece and turn a page to the era of the Crusades in ...

Pavlopetri is one of the oldest submerged cities known, dating back to around 5,000 years ago. It is an ancient Greek city that now lies underwater off the coast of southern Laconia in Greece.

2. Thebes, Greece The birthplace of mythical Greek hero Hercules, Thebes was affectionately referred to as “Seven-Gated Thebes,” to differentiate it from Thebes in Egypt. This large city had ...

Rhodes, the largest island of Greece’s Dodecanese Islands holds the Acropolis of Lindos within its embrace, but not in the cities of Rhodes. The Acropolis of Lindos perches atop a rocky hill ...

Ancient cities, he figured, should also fall into this category. To test this hypothesis, Ortman and his colleagues acquired data from 1,500 settlements in Mexico spanning a 2,000-year period.