Megas Alexandros

Since the toppling and execution of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya has been left in turmoil.  The centralized government he had put into place ha...

Anaxagoras   was one of the first persons to state that the moon was a rock. His theory was that the moon had been flung into space by th...

Edge of Empires  (ISBN 978-0-691-15468-8) by JY Chi and S Heath, depicts the history of  Dura-Europos  on the Euphrates in a unique way....

Although excavations in  Side  have been ongoing since the 1940s, a large number of artefacts and many buildings are still hidden underneat...

It seems that at last, the plans to restore the unique lighthouse of Patara are going to be materialized. The remains of this lighthouse t...

Usually, I am not too keen on those artistic renderings of buildings and cities from antiquity. Even the most elegant praising paintings of...

Among the huge amount of debris and parts of statues that have been unearthed in Pergamon , modern Bergama in Turkey , there is this colos...

The knowledge of people in antiquity, and in this case of Alexander the Great , never ceases to amaze me. This time I came across the...

Translating the content of tens of thousands clay tablets is a lengthy and time consuming process that can only be compared with the huge a...

You would expect that the Sanctuary of the Great Gods at Samothrace is one of the most frequently visited sites in Greece . It is surprisi...