Megas Alexandros

Historical events are gladly twisted and turned to make an interesting or commercially profitable story. Some or even many of these tales ca...

Speaking of Croatia , the medieval city of Dubrovnik  springs to mind followed by the imposing Palace of Emperor Diocletian in Split . At ...

Visitors to Aspendos rarely venture beyond the well-preserved Roman theater, ignoring the remains of the city proper behind it.   Aspendos ...

In antiquity, the coast of Asia Minor was a string of famous and powerful cities and towns, each with its own history. Some are only slowly...

It is noteworthy to realize that underwater archaeology is a very recent discipline. It started seriously in the 1960s and the techniques an...

A recurrent question that keeps popping up. The Thracians are often seen as a barbarian tribe north of Macedonia . In ancient Greece , every...

Road works in  Philippi  have revealed a larger-than-life statue of young Herakles.    [Picture from Archaeology Magazine ] Generally, the...

In antiquity, news was carried by word of mouth, but legal matters and other important information were cut in stone and placed in a conspic...

All accounts on the whereabouts of Alexander’s Tomb agree up to and including Ptolemy X , who, in 89 BC used the King’s golden sarcophagus t...

Oliver Stone received loads of criticism for his Alexander movie, revisions, and comments as if he had it all wrong. Well, nobody from Ale...