Alexander the Great's siege of the island city of Tyre used all the innovation and cunning worthy of a conqueror who is still remembered to this day.
Amid his campaigns against the mighty Persian Empire in the early fourth century...
There are many legends about the Greeks founding settlements far and wide on their way back from Troy after the fall of the city. According to one of these legends, a group of Greeks led by Teucer settled on...
Pygmalion was the legendary king of Cyprus in Greco-Roman mythology. According to stories of the king, he fell in love with a statue that he himself had sculpted. Surprising as it may sound, evidence suggests that King Pygmalion of...
The Phoenicians were, for a long time, significant rivals to the Greeks in dominating Mediterranean trade. Interestingly, they shared quite a few similarities to the ancient Greeks. But what do we actually know about them? Did a place called...
Builders discovered ruins from Alexander the Great's siege of Gaza at a 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery, the Jerusalem Post reports.
The Roman cemetery near the coast of the northern Gaza Strip contains 31 ornate tombs, with the local Antiquities Authority calling...
