Deep in the deserts of Iraq, the lost city of Charax Spasinou has finally been found. It seems it had been hiding under the Earth for more than a mill.

How many of us knew that the city of Gaza, the war-torn Palestinian enclave, has a Greek past that defined the history of the ...

Alexander the Great, a Macedonian king, built one of history's largest empires. He led his army across Asia and Egypt.

The blocks weighed dozens of tons each and consisted of upright pillars and crossbeams that once formed the entrance to the ...

The recent identification of Charax Spasinou, an ancient port city associated with the Hellenistic world and traditionally ...

The late Byzantine scholar Eleni Glykatzi-Arveler, one of Greece's most internationally recognised historians, will be remembered as a vivid and charismatic presence. Once, at the 2016 Delphi Economic ...

The Nile nourishes a green band stretching through the desert, from the heart of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. Along its ...

According to legendary sources, Temenus is one of the most significant founding figures in the history of early Greece.

In a 2023 paper, Professor Ingo Strauch argued that graffiti should be considered a genre of Indian epigraphy using a ...

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The island of Cuba has endured one of the longest blockades in history. Its sacrifice, however, has not been in vain.