Megas Alexandros

At school, I learned that the Laws of the Babylonian King Hammurabi , who reigned from 1792 to 1750 BC, were the oldest in the world. The na...

Hecate is a very recognizable goddess, the only one to be depicted with three heads or three bodies, as her realm includes the heavens, the ...

There should be a law to protect our cultural heritage from war. Well, yes, there is, but who is enforcing it?   After the barbaric destruct...

In my post, The story around Alexander’s copy of the Iliad , I briefly mentioned how the Abbasid Caliphs in Persia  largely contributed to p...

My first discovery of Greek musical annotations happened in 2012 when I saw the Seikilos column at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterda...

Since the beginning of this year , Alexandria-on-the-Tigris has been repeatedly discussed on the internet, and I was hoping to find new inf...

Throughout history, it transpires that Alexander liked to present himself as the new Achilles . His Companions jokingly said it was because ...

The team at Peter Sommer Travel has crafted a new unforgettable itinerary, ‘in this extraordinary part of the world’, Macedonia in Greece: V...

It is heartwarming to read that excavations in the city and harbor of Ptolemais have resumed in 2023. The initial diggings began in 2001...

Since 2013, I have repeatedly highlighted how colorful our world was in Greek and Roman antiquity.   In my first post, Ancient Greece in fu...