The Battle of Gaugamela, which took place on Oct. 1, 331 BC, is known for Alexander the Great's conquest of Darius III’s ...

Ancient Greek kingdoms existed in China, and there was a significant spread of Hellenism in Asia, including in Japan and ...

A year after ... of a federal Greece. Democracy in Athens had finally come to an end. The destiny of Greece would thereafter become inseparable with the empire of Philip's son: Alexander the ...

They didn't live on mainland Greece but on the nearby island of Crete, between 2200BC and 1450BC. They were known as the Minoans after ... Alexander the Great founded over 70 cities and created an ...

The horns are associated with the god Zeus-Amon - a hybrid of the two leading Greek ... to Alexander - he didn't get an empire. But he did get, and he hung on to, a kingdom. Twenty years after ...

Outside the biblical tradition, Babylon intrigued Greek and ... later by Alexander the Great in 331. Although Alexander had planned to make Babylon the capital of his empire, he died before ...

The site of one of the most important monuments in classical antiquity - the palace where Alexander ... has reopened after a 16-year restoration. The Palace of Aigai, near Greece's northern ...

After conquering Anatolia (334-3 BCE), Phoenicia, Egypt and Libya (333-2 BCE) and finally Persia (331-330 BCE), Alexander ... Greece and Syria. To some historians, the edicts unified an extended ...

In fact, at one point, it was as big as Athens, and it served for a brief period as the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Roman philosopher and statement, Cicero, once described it as the greatest ...

Night - Mostly clear. Winds NNW. The overnight low will be 65 °F (18.3 °C). Mostly cloudy with a high of 80 °F (26.7 °C). Winds variable at 4 to 6 mph (6.4 to 9.7 kph). Partly cloudy today ...

After the Roman conquest and the shifting ... whose founder had inherited the eastern tranche of the empire of Alexander the Great. The Nabataeans held off numerous Seleucid attacks, even ...