Megas Alexandros

A brand new exhibition The Greeks – Agamemnon to Alexander the Great has started at the Montreal Archaeology and History Museum at Pointe...

Alexander would turn in his grave if he knew how careless his first great city was handling his past! Agreed, today’s Archaeological M...

Mieza is known through Homer as one of the cities of lovely Emathia , but to me, it is the place where Alexander the Great received his e...

Albania sounds to be the right place to find traces of Illyria,  if any are to be found.  We know that Alexander spent time in Illyri...

I have a weak spot for Zeugma , the city that has been nearly entirely flooded following the construction of a dam on the Euphrates River ...

Diodorus Siculus, Books 11-12.37.1 (ISBN 0-292-71277-4) is probably best known as published in the Loeb Classical Library version, but h...

Truly something for puzzle aficionados! Roll up your sleeves and dig in the bunch of 120,000 shards to recreate an ancient mosaic floor. So...

We are all waiting for the results of the DNA test on the bones recovered from the Tomb of Kata Hill/Amphipolis . There are rumors, and app...

Picturing Alexander walking through the streets of Ephesos is relatively easy. When he arrived, most cities of Asia Minor were occupied...

It is quite unusual that after so many years and so many visits, I never put anything in writing about beautiful Ephesos , the number one e...