Megas Alexandros

I n the tradition of his previous book in the series of Cleitarchus’ Reconstruction (see: The Death of Alexander the Great: a Reconstruct...

Although most people know about Persepolis and Pasargadae , there are only few who are aware that we owe their discovery to the German ar...

In these uncertain times where so many precious archaeological artifacts disappear – if not, are destroyed – it is a pleasure to hear that ...

Jordan is much more than the splendid site of Petra and intriguing Wadi Rum , there is a huge desert stretching away to the northeast of ...

This battle is by far the greatest battle Alexander ever fought, yet it is also the one generally overlooked by historians and indeed dw...

Now that the Islamist forces have been expulsed from Palmyra (see my recent post: Good news from Palmyra? ) , the Syrian archaeologists ...

Now that the forces of IS have been pushed out of Palmyra , the first journalists and photographers are able to reassert the extent of the ...

Pausanias  was born in Asia Minor in 110 AD and lived during the reign of  Emperors Hadrian , Antoninus Pius ,  and   Marcus Aurelius , ...

Pictures of Hephaistion are terribly rare and when finally a new one is being discovered at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki , we...

When I visited Athens ’ Archaeological Museum for the first time in the 1970s, I was fascinated by a group of marble sculptures gathere...