Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Archaeological work in the Jerusalem Walls National Park within the City of David uncovered a gold ring set with a red gemstone. Experts believe the ...
Many artistic changes took place in the Greek world during the Hellenistic period, defined as the three centuries between the death of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E. and the ...
Greek art and life had always been influenced by other cultures, but the expansion in territory during Alexander the Great's conquests brought greater possibilities for mutual cultural exchanges.
A 2,100-year-old tomb from southeastern Bulgaria has revealed a Thracian warrior laid to rest with a gilded silver wreath, ...
Can you give just a general definition of what's meant by the term the Hellenistic world? The Hellenistic world is that world that was created after the conquests of the near east by Alexander the ...
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, Vol. 44, Papers from the forty-seventh meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 26 to 28 July 2013 (2014), pp. 153 ...
Excavations continue at the Assos Archaeological Site, a Hellenistic city in modern-day Turkey with 7,000 years of continuous habitation from the Paleolithic period to the present. The year’s ...