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 ...

An intriguing Hellenistic statue and other signs of ... with a large pinch of salt," Cartledge, author of "Alexander the Great" (Overlook Press, 2004), told Live Science. Compounding 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 ...

Before presidential addresses and social media, ancient rulers used coins as a form of marketing to reach their people in ...

Alexander the Great built an empire that stretched from ... Alexander's conquests and the time period afterward ushered in the "Hellenistic" age. "This was a period of immense cultural, economic ...

His research focuses on the social status and function of Greek poets who worked in the far-flung royal courts of the Hellenistic Greek world after Alexander the Great. Hellenistic poets have long ...

When Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C., 13 years after building one of ... at the intersection of two ancient thoroughfares, she said. An intriguing Hellenistic statue and other signs of ancient ...