Megas Alexandros

Himera was situated at the border between the Greek colonies of Sicily and the lands controlled by the Carthaginians. The conflicts that ...

Although Bactria was part of the Achaemenid Empire until the arrival of Alexander the Great , we may find it difficult to imagine that tho...

A substantial building measuring some 2,500 m2 has been uncovered in ancient Pelusium , the city Alexander occupied when he entered Egyp...

It has taken much time and in-depth study, but in the end, Prof. Marek T. Olszewski from the University of Warsaw has reached the conclusio...

It is beyond comprehension that museums, large and small, do not have a complete inventory of their collections. The storage rooms and basem...

Strabo , a Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian, was born in Asia Minor towards the end of the first century BC. He traveled ext...

The story of the race of Marathon went down into history in 490 BC when the messenger Phidippides ran from the Battlefield of Marathon ...

Once again, Italy is on the warpath claiming the return of another four artifacts back from the Getty Museum , besides the famous Lysippos...

It seems like a flood of gems that have been flushing towards the Getty Museum just a few months ago (May 2019). We find rings from...

Theophrastus   lived in Alexander ’s days, but despite his elaborate work on the plants and foods he received from Asia , he is hardly me...