Megas Alexandros

Bronze sculptures from Hellenistic times are pretty rare, at least when it comes to larger pieces and life-size statues. So, here is a uniq...

Don’t rush to the bookstore next door to find “ The Authoritative Guide to Persepolis ” by A. Shapur Shahbazi (ISBN 978-964-91960-5-6), y...

From our history books, we often get the impression that Alexander rushed to  Persepolis , set the place ablaze, and left right away for h...

A picture worthy of Alexander , or should I say: a picture worthy of the gods? It appeared quite a while ago on the site of Dave Culle...

Our imagination is always very much put to the test when visiting an antique site for we have mentally to reconstruct the buildings and the...

The situation of the archaeological sites across Syria is pretty desperate. It is a fact that some of the country’s highest-profile histori...

What will they come up next, you’ll ask. Yet the theory is not as crazy as it may seem. [ Reconstruction of the statue of Zeus at the...

Opramoas was a very wealthy Lycian citizen who lived in the first half of the second century AD in the small town of Rhodiapolis   in east...

Unearthing a new statue is always exciting but when it can be tied back to Lysippos, Alexander’s personal sculptor the find is even more e...

Today we are still familiar with the title “shah” as the rule of the Shah of Persia is not in such a distant past, although it has originate...