Megas Alexandros

Information about the continuous excavations in Aizanoi is very scant and the information is very scrappy.   [Picture from Arkeonews ] The ...

Slowly but surely, Kibyra   is rising from its ashes as excavation and reconstruction works steadily expose more of its precious monuments. ...

What a surprise, there was a Carian language!   So far, I have encountered inscriptions in the Lycian language and in Pamphylian , and even...

We are all familiar with the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, which holds many treasures from the Egyptian dynasties, including the world-famous...

Historical events are gladly twisted and turned to make an interesting or commercially profitable story. Some or even many of these tales ca...

Speaking of Croatia , the medieval city of Dubrovnik  springs to mind followed by the imposing Palace of Emperor Diocletian in Split . At ...

Visitors to Aspendos rarely venture beyond the well-preserved Roman theater, ignoring the remains of the city proper behind it.   Aspendos ...

In antiquity, the coast of Asia Minor was a string of famous and powerful cities and towns, each with its own history. Some are only slowly...

It is noteworthy to realize that underwater archaeology is a very recent discipline. It started seriously in the 1960s, and the techniques a...

A recurrent question that keeps popping up. The Thracians are often seen as a barbarian tribe north of Macedonia . In ancient Greece , every...