The roughly 2,000-year-old mosaic was buried in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. It was discovered in 1831, ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have just identified the site of Alexander the Great's first victory over the Persian Empire. This ...

Gerard Butler reveals the intense injuries sustained by the cast of 300, including himself, during the film's ostensibly ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets ...

Xerxes the Great was the fourth King of Kings who ruled the Achaemenid Empire of Persia. Known in the modern day for fighting the Greeks, as well as for for his battle-hardened feats and massive stone ...

History has long celebrated its ancient world pioneers, yet many great deeds of overlooked figures have faded with their ...

Among many other time-tested attributes, the Jewish people have a long memory. Aid us in the manner of the ancient Persian King Cyrus, and we will remember you forever fondly. Cross us as Seleucid ...

Aid us in the manner of the ancient Persian King Cyrus, and we will remember you forever fondly. Cross us as Seleucid King Antiochus IV did, and we will curse you every Hanukkah. Our talent for ...

Alongside the miracle of light from Hanukkah, I grew up celebrating Shab-e Yalda, the ancient Persian winter solstice tradition. The mystics believed that on the year’s longest and darkest night — ...

One of the earliest mentions of Thrace appears in The Iliad with King Rhesos arriving to fight ... the classical world in context (Egypt and Persia came first). As the museum’s director Timothy ...

Athens became the dominant maritime power of the ancient Aegean. Credit ... As is often the case in history, a crisis forced the Athenians to strive for greatness. Persian King Darius I placed Athens ...