Megas Alexandros

Syedra was discovered as recently as 1994, but excavations only slowly exposed parts of this ancient port city, a good 20 kilometers south...

Hector seated The Trojan War , as recounted by Homer , is a beautiful love story of Paris  and  Helen   set against the cruelty of war when...

Until now, very little could be seen of the excavations carried out inside the walls of the Royal Palace in Pella .   The Palace occupied a ...

Gadara   has been identified as the ancient city half-hidden beneath modern Umm Qais in Jordan .   Until late Hellenistic times, the citize...

The waters along the Egyptian Coast hold a treasure trove of statues, columns, reliefs, and other architectural elements. Flooded ancient...

Kayseri was called Caesarea . To be named after Caesar , in this case Emperor Tiberius , who reigned from 14 AD to 37 AD, underscores its i...

The tales about the tomb of Alexander are countless, varying from pure myth and wishful thinking to serious studies and well-documented anal...

I have always been fascinated by Roman glassware in all its shapes, forms, and colors (see: The beauty of ancient glassware ).   Yet, I ne...

It happens quite frequently that two or more cities go by the same name. That can be very tricky if we don’t pay attention.   I actually sto...

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