Megas Alexandros

About two years ago, I posted a blog about the death of Alexander based on the analysis made by Dr Katherine Hall, a Senior Lecturer at the...

End of 2017, I wrote a post about Caligula ’s megalomania (see: A sample of Caligula’s megalomania ) and the pleasure vessels he built for h...

  It is common knowledge by now that Corinth was famous for having two harbors. As the city straddled the isthmus between mainland Greece ...

What is known as  Alexander’s Wall is a section of the Elburz Mountains located about five kilometers east of the Caspian Sea . From what M...

Alexander the Great   and the later Greco-Bactrian Empire with its unique artistic expression eventually led to the emergence of the Kushan ...

About five years ago, I mentioned that the foundations of a city gate had been discovered in  Pasargadae  (see: Archaeological research resu...

Neither the name of Olba nor the modern name of Uzuncabur ç rings any bell with me. The city has been in the news lately because of the ex...

The question whether Alexander ’s dear mount died on the Battle of the Hydaspes or at another location around that time has been discussed ...

Coins with the image of Alexander were widespread and accepted throughout his empire and kept circulating in large numbers long after his de...

Oenoanda   or Oinoanda lies only some 60 kilometers from Fethiye , right next to the modern village of İncealiler . It is one of those un...