Megas Alexandros

Several years ago, most of the collection of Hellenistic art at the Louvre was housed in one of the larger ground-floor rooms. The lighting...

The Kingdom of the Bosporus comprised the lands between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea, more precisely the Taman Peninsula and the Ke...

The Nature of Alexander by Mary Renault (ISBN 0-394-73825-X) is not a historical novel like her bestsellers Firefrom Heaven and The Pe...

Among the rivers that have a magic name, the Evros or Hebrus River certainly is one of them. For a start, it is the second longest...

Another enticing title for the tour which Peter Sommer Travel's offers to rub shoulders with Alexander the Great! Most of us who are...

Even in antiquity it was possible to make a fortune being a “simple” fisherman. The recent discovery of a villa in Halicarnassus datin...

Until very recently and based on storage jars from Cosenza and Lecce in southern Italy, it was believed that olive oil made its appearance...

The World Heritage Site of Hatra in modern Iraq definitely deserves our undivided attention! We will remember the bone-chilling pictu...

As so often, our modern inventions are not exactly new and a mere “re-invention” of something that existed centuries before and was lost in...

Maybe, just maybe, researchers from the University of Basel have deciphered a papyrus that was written by the Greek physician Galen ! ...