New research shows how trade rooted in local resource differences and the conflicts it sparked, made ancient Greek ...

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

“We know the names of many female artists and writers, but possess the works of few.” (p. 3) ...

Cyrus’ exemplary leadership forged a patchwork of ethnicities into an empire that founded Persian rule in the Middle East, Professor Lynette Mitchell explains. Read the Transcript Cyrus the Great (or ...

It found that during the Achaemenid Persian empire, between 559 and 330 BCE ... that roughly equated to the Red Sea. The world maps of the Greek historians and geographers Hecataeus (472 to ...

The Persian Empire covers ... the Pharaohs, the Ancient Suez Canal, or Necho’s canal, it followed a different course than the modern Suez Canal, but with the same purpose. Although according to Suez ...

or Persian New Year. Nowruz translates as “new day” and marks a festival of renewal, hope, and ancient tradition ... what you’ll find labelled as Greek yoghurt in supermarkets.

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 ...

The defeat of the Persians in 334 B.C. at that location provided a monumental turning point in the success of Alexander and his invasion of the Persian Empire ... the ancient Greek realm, around ...

her appropriation of the ancient city's culture, and her dissemination of that culture throughout her wide empire; through the long captivity of the Jews, and the great influence upon them of ...