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 ...

Greece is very far away from the heartland of early Buddhism in India and parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. But thanks to Alexander the Great, Hellenistic and Buddhist cultures came into contact in ...

Born in 356 BCE in Pella, Alexander the Great became one of history's most ... widely spreading his name and the Hellenistic civilization. Historians offer various interpretations of Alexander's ...

The Hellenistic world is that world that was created after the conquests of the near east by Alexander the Great at the end of the fourth century B.C. And his conquest, which extended from India ...

During the Hellenistic era, an obscure city in western Asia Minor (modern Turkey) became one of the leading states of the 3rd ...

When Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C., 13 years after building one of the world's largest empires ... The tomb may be hidden beneath the streets of modern-day Alexandria, at the intersection of ...

The city of Iskenderun, also known as Alexandretta, in todays Turkey, was originally founded by Alexander the Great.

Brett Evans is a scholar of ancient Greek literature, epigraphy, and cultural history. His research focuses on the social status and function of Greek poets who worked in the far-flung royal courts of ...