Megas Alexandros

Life is full of surprises and Alexander ’s life is no exception.  Our best sources are extant books by Arrian , Diodorus , Curtius , Plutarc...

The ancient city of Mastaura is unknown to me and the internet is not proving to be very helpful. The site is situated 50 kilometers east ...

How about crowning Alexander with a gold wreath on his birthday? In Greek antiquity, gold wreaths symbolized glory, power, and immortality...

Writing about Alexander over the years, I have been handling chronological dates for his whereabouts in the correct time frame. There is, ho...

I n 2020, Istanbul Airport  opened a Museum accessible to those travelers having time to spare while transiting before their final destina...

Saddles and stirrups did not exist in Alexander ’s days. He and his cavalry forces rode their horses bareback, which required considerable c...

Some time ago, I wrote about a gold bust of Septimius Severus discovered in Plotinopolis , some 20 km north of Thracian Greece (see: A sol...

I always loved Roman glassware. It is such a fragile material and it is amazing to see such a variety of shapes and models on display in so ...

Aristobulus of Cassandreia   has been listed among the many biographers of Alexander the Great (see:  Eyewitness accounts of Alexander’s lif...

Even a four-meter-tall bronze statue of Hercules may remain unnoticed among the many treasures of the Vatican Museum in Rome . It represen...