Archaeologists have identified a rare bronze ring engraved with Ptolemaic Queen Arsinoe III near Russia's Black Sea coast.
A sculpture dating to the Hellenistic Greek period has turned up in the most unlikely of settings. It all started when a 32-year-old Greek man in the city of Thessaloniki stumbled upon a statue ...
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 ...
Archaeologists uncover Greco-Roman burials near Alexandria and a Byzantine settlement with Greek inscriptions, shedding new ...
A lead sling bullet has been discovered in Yavne bearing an inscription showing that it may have belonged to a Greek soldier in the war against the Hasmoneans during the Hellenistic Period, the Israel ...
When Alexander the Great conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire and hauled off the treasures of its royal capitals, he unleashed perhaps the greatest economic stimulus package of all time. The city ...
The subproject uncovers the deep administrative structures of xenocracy in antiquity by exploring the following comparative perspectives: a) the detection of xenocratic rule and its actors in ...
An investigation by an architectural researcher from Kumamoto University, Japan has revealed the high possibility that a wooden stage existed in the theater of the ancient Greek City of Messene during ...
From 22 to 24 October 2025, the international symposium ‘Foreign Rule in Hellenistic Greece and Egypt. Local Contexts and Perspectives’ will take place in Münster, organised by the Department of ...