Megas Alexandros

Opium may be best known from the mid-19th-century Opium Wars in China . More recently, it was associated with Afghanistan, which provided n...

Who would have expected to find healing waters in Myra ?   As mentioned earlier, the excavations in  Myra are hampered by modern  Demre,  w...

It is always a pleasure to return to Sagalassos   where the first excavations started in 1989 by Professor Marc Waelkens from the Katholieke...

Herodes Atticus is best known for his theater at the foot of Athens ’ Acropolis . For most people, it is only a name to define this histor...

I am quite amazed to see this recent picture of Tlos’ Theater and Stadium. What an invitation to return!   [picture from Hurriyet Daily New...

Now is the moment to see the Athenian Parthenon (see: Experiencing the perfection of a Greek temple )  free of scaffolding. This is the firs...

The news is not entirely new, but digging up a bust of Alexander the Great in the UK deserves all our attention. The Daily Mail made head...

The ancient site of Oxyrhynchus , south of modern Cairo , is best known for the papyrus remains that were discovered back in 1897 (see: City...

A lot can happen in ten years since I last visited Tralles   (see: A tentative visit to Tralles ).   Excavations in this ancient city have b...

According to the Greek Reporter , the Italian archaeologist Graziano Ranocchia located the site of Plato ’s grave in the garden of his Acad...