Megas Alexandros

Illegal digs are inevitable and Turkey with its countless antique sites is no exception. A beautiful bronze head of an unknown young man di...

Plato   is a highly fascinating figure. Not only was he a student of Socrates , but he also taught Aristotle , who, in turn, passed his know...

Language is our means of communication, wherever we are, wherever we go. It would be so practical if we all spoke the same language, yet its...

Illyrian helmets truly stand out and are immediately recognizable. Their particularity is the rectangular opening for the face and two paral...

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 ....