Nearchus, the Navigator, bridged East and West with a daring voyage that reshaped ancient maritime strategy and trade routes.

Then, in 334 BCE, he led his army into Asia to fulfil Philip’s ambition of conquering the Persian Empire — the largest ... (the most sacred site in Ancient Greece) is Dion, where Alexander ...

"It was the first world empire. It's an Afro-Eurasian empire because it included parts of Africa, Asia and Europe." The ancient ... Greece in what was known as the Second Greco-Persian War.

This situation persisted until Alexander the Great, the legendary ruler of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon, conquered the Persian Empire in the latter half of the 4th century B.C. Darics were ...

[Related: Ancient ... map of western Antola. CREDIT: Notion Archaeological Project, University of Michigan. The city of Notion was incorporated into the Persian Empire together with the other ...

which spanned roughly from 800 BCE to the beginning of the Persian Wars in 490 BCE. The Archaic era saw the emergence of many features we associate with ancient Greece, such as the city-state ...

The ongoing excavation of an ancient Greek ... and the Roman Empire but also of hundreds of years earlier, when tension was high between the Greek civilization and the Persian Empire.