Upper graders become "shipwreck detectives" by studying the debris field from a shipwreck in the Aegean Sea which took place in the 700s.  A website is accessed that gives specific information about the debris field, and pairs of...

Sixth graders examine the research that archaeologists have done on a Late Bronze Age shipwreck in order to work out the extent of trade in the Eastern Mediterranean during this period, with emphasis on the involvement of the Mycenaeans...

A map of Greece and the Aegean Sea in 1876, showing Peloponnesus, Epirus, Illyria, Thessaly, Macedonia, Thrace, and the major islands of Lesbos, Khios, Paros, Delos, Naxos, Kythera, Melos, Rhodes, and Crete.

A physical map of Greece and the Aegean Sea, showing Greek territories in Asia Minor. This map shows the rivers, mountain terrain, coastal features, and islands of the region.

A map of the islands of the Aegean Sea with the coasts of Greece and Asia Minor during the Bronze Age, showing the mainland and island territories and important cities of the time.

A map of the Hellespont (Dardanelles) between the Aegean Sea and Propontis (Bosporus), during the Peloponnesian War (405 BC), showing several important sites such as Troy (Ilium) and Abydos, where Xerxes I built two bridges to allow his...

A map of the Hellenes settlements in 550 BC before the Persian Wars, including the southern Balkan Peninsula, the islands and coastal regions of the Mare Aegaeum (Aegean Sea), the southern tip of the Italian Peninsula and Sicily. This...