Alexander the Great is said to have rejected a colossal Mount Athos project that could have been the eighth wonder of the ...

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...

Was Cleopatra the cause of the conflict between these two consuls, both eager to become the masters of Rome? Historians are ...

Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...

The most famous gay couple of antiquity… … were possibly really just close platonic friends. Whether Alexander the Great and ...

At first glance, most people coming across the exhibit of landscapes by Earl Schofield in the Peterborough Town Library might ...

In her work, Niki Saint Phalle repeatedly referenced a personal and mythical bestiary that she brought to life in colorful ...

You can, however, expect to meet some crocodiles on your Nile voyage. Most itineraries stop at Kom Ombo, a town 50km upriver ...

The Monte Carlo of Ancient Rome was a resort city where emperors and other elites could indulge their wild side amid affairs ...

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

Everyone from Cleopatra ... ancient conquerors who took rape and pillage as their right in victory, Alexander tended to stick to the latter and eschew the former. Sisygambis, the mother of Darius III, ...

His body was taken to Egypt and was said to have been entombed in Alexandria, where it was venerated by everyone from Cleopatra to Julius ... of Zoroastrianism, an ancient monotheistic religion ...