The Isthmus of Corinth is a tantalizingly narrow piece of land that separates the Gulf of Corinth from the Saronic Gulf. For ...

Ancient Corinth was located about 1.8 miles (3 kilometers) inland, but Lechaion had prime real estate near the isthmus that connects the Peloponnese peninsula to mainland Greece, meaning that ...

Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. In the ancient Mediterranean, Corinth was an economic powerhouse. Built on a narrow isthmus—a natural choke point between north and south—the ...

The Diolkos stone road is a marvel of engineering from Ancient Greece, allowing ships to travel from the Ionian Sea to the Aegean Sea.

A nautical marvel, the four-mile waterway is located about 50 miles west of Athens and slices through the Isthmus of Corinth ... navigable canal — and this ancient wonder is a beauty to behold ...

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