The ancient Greek city of Pergamon in Anatolia flourished and enjoyed a long period of glory forging a successful alliance ...

The main fountain in the ancient Greek city of Perga in Turkey flows again after restoration works restored it to its former ...

MOSAICO: Italian code of a timeless art” is currently on display at Dupont Underground. Developed in partnership with the ...

On the other hand, Iran (Persia) is a country of ancient people ... across to South Asian modern states of Pakistan and India. Darius the great the fourth king of the Achaemenid Persian empire ...

Our words for “vehicle” come from our ancient words for path or way ... By the 5th century BCE, the Persian king Darius 1 had built the Royal Road, a dramatic 2,400-km highway that linked Sardis in ...

From 516 BCE, it was incorporated into the empire of Darius the Great. Power fluctuated back and forth as Persia launched successive invasions ... Indeed, there is much for the inhabitants of this ...

I feel just like a real scholar now,” I thought, snuggling into seat 29D with a paperback advance copy of Professor of ...

The team also concluded that the cloth corresponds to historical accounts of a ceremonial garment known as the “sarapis,” which Alexander took after his defeat of Darius III of Persia ... which have a ...

The Battle of Thermopylae is one of the most renowned battles in Greek history. It was fought between Greek cities and 300 Spartans against Persia in 480 BC. During one of the most famous conflicts in ...

Columbia Professor Richard A. Billows, in his book Before and After Alexander, sheds light on unseen aspects of the legendary ...