Archaeologists have discovered an ancient tomb hidden in the courtyard of a house in Turkiye's ancient Greek city of Edessa, ...

During the Hellenistic era, an obscure city in western Asia Minor (modern Turkey) became one of the leading states of the 3rd ...

Nabataean wealth awoke the envy and greed of their neighbors, especially the Seleucids, whose founder had inherited the eastern tranche of the empire of Alexander the Great. The Nabataeans held ...

Even the Seleucids who succeeded Alexander ruled outside my ancestor’s kingdom’s borders in Afghanistan. “We have it in our oral history that one of my ancestors, a son of Porus, took Alexander’s ...

Tyre remained an important trading and manufacturing center that was fought over by Alexander's immediate successors, the Ptolemies and the Seleucids. Recent excavations at Tyre show how large the ...