The vast and atmospheric complex contains temples (including the Temple of Saturn and the Temple of Vesta), squares and numerous arches (including the grand Arch of Septimius Severus, dedicated to the ...

In 221 BCE, King Ying Zheng of Qin conquered the rival warring states and established the Qin empire as Qin Shi Huangdi (The ...

Unlike Antoninus Pius before them, the two rulers did engage in some military conflicts, including a conflict with the Parthian Empire. In 165 C.E., the Antonine Plague began spreading through the ...

Tradition has it that the first non-Greek ruler of the Parthians and founder of the Parthian Empire was Arsaces I, a governor under Diodotus, the first Hellenistic satrap of Bactria. Arsaces was the ...

Unlike Antoninus Pius before them, the two rulers did engage in some military conflicts, including a conflict with the Parthian Empire. In 165 C.E., the Antonine Plague began spreading through the ...

Cleopatra, and Marc Antony spent time in their decadent love affair on the Greek island of Samos in the summer of 32 B.C.

Following Cleopatra’s return, Rome had left Egypt in relative peace, but the Senate’s eyes turned once more to the wealthy empire, when Antony decided he needed money to subdue his enemies in the ...

"We must look at and research the Hellenistic world," states archaeologist and director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of ...

Originally constructed to house the Roman Emperor Valerian after his capture by Shapur I, the structure played a crucial role in the Sassanid Empire’s history ... witness to the influence of ...

She saw the Israelitish empire exalted, and she saw it annihilated. She saw Greece rise and flourish two thousand years and die … Damascus has seen all that has ever occurred on earth ...