Megas Alexandros

Another opportunity to celebrate Alexander's birthday. Hip hip hooray! Unlike us mortals, godly Alexander will celebrate his birthday fo...

Speaking of the booty of war raises images of soldiers plundering palaces or the houses of the wealthy citizens in the territory they just c...

It is with great pleasure that I read about the latest excavation in Olympos . After all, my last visit dates back to 2013 (see: Discovering...

At school, I learned that the Laws of the Babylonian King Hammurabi , who reigned from 1792 to 1750 BC, were the oldest in the world. The na...

Hecate is a very recognizable goddess, the only one to be depicted with three heads or three bodies, as her realm includes the heavens, the ...

There should be a law to protect our cultural heritage from war. Well, yes, there is, but who is enforcing it?   After the barbaric destruct...

In my post, The story around Alexander’s copy of the Iliad , I briefly mentioned how the Abbasid Caliphs in Persia  largely contributed to p...

My first discovery of Greek musical annotations happened in 2012 when I saw the Seikilos column at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterda...

Since the beginning of this year , Alexandria-on-the-Tigris has been repeatedly discussed on the internet, and I was hoping to find new inf...

Throughout history, it transpires that Alexander liked to present himself as the new Achilles . His Companions jokingly said it was because ...