Megas Alexandros

For a rough 35 million Turkish Liras, anyone can become the owner of the ancient Greek city of Bargylia, located 30 kilometers from Bod...

Alexander aficionados like to believe that crossing rivers using animal skins is something Alexander “invented”. Well, I have to disappoint...

Several years ago, I was browsing through the Archaeological Museum of Dion   after exploring the nearby Macedonian sanctuary and Roman cit...

No, the villa did not belong to Alexander the Great , but to his namesake who lived in Amyntaio near Florina . With a total of 96 roo...

As a matter of course, only the most beautiful or most telling artifacts find their way to the exhibition space of the museum, here as well...

Some ancient sources mention a small silver coin that is labeled as a “ danake ” and this calls for further investigation. The Greek wo...

This is the third edition of  All Alexander’s Women by Robbert Bosschart ( actually replaced in March 2025 by his 5th edition ) .   It i...

Would it not be a great experience to travel from the heart of Rome to the site of Ostia Antica by boat just as the ancient Romans once d...

Metro works are ongoing in many larger cities all over Europe and Naples ( Napoli ) in Italy is one of them. Here archaeologists found th...

As strange as it may seem, archaeologists have discovered several inscriptions praising Pharaoh  Arrhideus/Philip III   and the crocodile g...