On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Alexander the Great famously founded the city of Alexandria in 331 BCE. It went on to be the capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom ...

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The careful attitude to the historical heritage, preservation and restoration of the monuments of German culture in the ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

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The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

This forbidding terrain, straddling Africa and Asia, endured as an eternal no-man’s-land, swept over by invading armies from the time of Pharaoh Ramses II and Alexander the Great to Napoleon ...

The Angelokastro is located approximately 4 miles north along the coast and makes for a great hiking destination ... being the island's second-largest settlement. Lefkimi is the south's ...

Map: Guilbert Gates ... rulers of Anatolia. When Alexander the Great passed through this rugged terrain in 334 B.C., after crossing the Dardanelles, he confronted well-defended mountain enclaves ...