Megas Alexandros

No, and it was not a love poem written by Sappho   but by Shu-Sin , a Sumerian King who ruled around 2,000 BC.  Well, it may not be exactly ...

The Villa dei Papiri as reconstructed in Malibu , California , got its name from the huge amount of papyrus scrolls found inside the house’s...

Alexander’s campaign into the Balkans before marching east to conquer the Persian Empire is often neglected and even forgotten in literature...

The Paeonians occupied the land north of ancient Macedonia and functioned as a buffer zone with the Dardanians on their northern border. By...

Yavana means as much as Greek or could even refer to a foreigner in ancient Indian literature. The word may have a Persian origin and travel...

The ancient site of Girsu is situated some 25 kilometers west of Lagash in Southern Mesopotamia . Today the Iraqi town is called Tello ....

Chania  on Crete ’s northwestern coast is best known for its beaches and hotels that attract today’s tourists. Its history, however, goes ba...

There is a thin line between the restoration of an object or a building and its reconstruction. A good restorer will preserve the authentici...

The name of Alexandria Troas has a most confusing name since it is generally thought that the city was founded by Alexander the Great , mor...

In this last part of the Periplus ,  Arrian  takes us from Dioscuras/ Sebastopolis   to Byzantium .   He starts his story where he left o...